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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why did the Grégoires refuse to help the miners?
(a) they believe God doesn't want them to
(b) they hate poor people
(c) they are almost broke themselves
(d) they believe the miners spend their money unwisely

4. What does Bonnemort mean?
(a) good luck
(b) bad future
(c) good death
(d) sturdy man

5. What type of job did Etienne have previously?
(a) an engineer
(b) an artist
(c) a mechanic
(d) a manager

6. What happens in the Maheu family as the strike is called?
(a) it is getting smaller
(b) they steal more food
(c) they are fighting among themselves
(d) it is getting poorer

7. What are the type of people who tend to go to the Advantage?
(a) dissatified workers
(b) mine management
(c) young people
(d) older men

8. By what name does Bonnemort's daughter-in-law go?
(a) Cecelia
(b) La Maheude
(c) Dominique
(d) Isabella

9. How do the visitors feel about the Maheu children?
(a) they are delightful
(b) they are funny
(c) they are stupid
(d) they are frightful

10. How does Etienne become a good hewer?
(a) he studies a book
(b) Bonnemort takes him under his wing
(c) advice and help from Catherine
(d) Chaval teaches him

11. What is the new capitalistic trend concerning money?
(a) put the money in a bank
(b) invest in speculation
(c) give money to poor people
(d) put the capital to work and maximize profit

12. Where does La Maheude go to ask for help?
(a) the charity center
(b) the priest
(c) the Grégoires
(d) the bank

13. What does the grocer want in order to help La Maheude?
(a) one of La Maheude's family heirlooms
(b) La Maheude to sleep with him
(c) La Maheude to work for him
(d) Catherine to come to the store

14. For what does Maheu get scolded by his boss?
(a) having Etienne live with them
(b) being late to work
(c) dropping a cart
(d) leaving a rotten timber in place

15. For what is Etienne hired?
(a) as a carpenter
(b) as a loader
(c) as a horse tender
(d) as a hewer

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the miners decide to do when the company lowers their pay?

2. Where did Léon Grégoire get his money?

3. Where does Etienne go to rent a room?

4. About what do Etienne and Souvarine talk?

5. Who goes with Chaval when he leaves the Voreux?

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