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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Etienne suggest the workers create?
(a) a provident fund
(b) a different shift system
(c) a way to rotate workers
(d) a health plan

2. Why does Chaval almost instantly dislike Etienne?
(a) he reminds him of his father
(b) he's jealous of him
(c) he feels superior to him
(d) he feels like Etienne is too smart

3. Why do the miners hate the supervisors?
(a) they're mean and fine them too much
(b) they don't work much
(c) they have more money than the miners
(d) they hit the miners with whips

4. Why do the supervisors fine the Maheu team?
(a) for faulty timbering
(b) for stopping work before lunch
(c) for not meeting the daily quota
(d) for talking too much

5. What does Etienne create with advice from his friend Pluchart?
(a) a new way to hew
(b) a workers' union
(c) a new system of managment
(d) a new pay system

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chaval believe he owns Catherine?

2. Where does Etienne Lantier arrive the night at the beginning of the novel?

3. Why would visitors come to the mining village?

4. What happens with the provident fund?

5. Why was Etienne fired from his previous job?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Etienne knows he can no longer control the crowd of miners at Voreux?

2. How does Etienne's move affect his relationship with Catherine?

3. Describe how Germinal starts out.

4. Chaval comes in the Advantage where Etienne is talking with Rasseneur. What does he announce and what happens between him and Etienne?

5. What does Lantier do when the miners begin to reject him?

6. What does Mrs. Hennebeau do in the second section of the book?

7. How do the miners feel about Etienne Lantier and what do they do about it?

8. Why were the Montsou miners angry at the Jean-Bart miners?

9. What happens to Etienne as he works in the mines, as far as his job is concerned?

10. Why does Catherine return home during the strike and what does she see?

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