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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Lantier get to know after he left hiding?
(a) Pluchart
(b) Deneulin
(c) Zariezia
(d) a young soldier

2. What causes an explosion at the Jean-Bart mine?
(a) coal dust igniting
(b) timbers that catch on fire
(c) dynamite lit by miners
(d) a fired lamp

3. What do the miners do when the Grégoires pull up to the Hennebeaus' house?
(a) nothing
(b) attack the carriage
(c) suround them and chant
(d) pull them out and kill them

4. What has come to Montsou because of the strike?
(a) the mine owners
(b) the army
(c) private detectives
(d) the governor

5. What job does Négrel hold at the mine?
(a) an engineer
(b) a supervisor
(c) a carter
(d) a hewer

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the miners decide to do about Jean-Bart?

2. What do the Montsou miners do at the Mirou pit?

3. Who does the owner of the Jean-Bart mine convince to stop the strike?

4. Why do the miners sign up with the union?

5. How do the soldiers respond to the miners?

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