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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What major character is killed at the confrontation at the mine?
(a) Maheu
(b) Deneulin
(c) Etienne
(d) Chaval

2. Where does Etienne see Jeanlin go one evening?
(a) through a hidden hole
(b) to Chaval
(c) to Denneulin
(d) to the Hennebeaus'

3. What does the owner of the Jean-Bart mine think will happen if the miners strike his mine?
(a) he will go bankrupt
(b) someone will be killed
(c) his wife will leave him
(d) they will destroy the mine

4. Who comes to the Maheu house with food for the family?
(a) Jacques
(b) Catherine
(c) Bonnemort
(d) Jeanlin

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

6. What does Hennebeau tell the miners?
(a) he'll raise their salary
(b) he'll lower the prices in the grocery store
(c) he'll suspend rent payments on the homes
(d) he'll talk to his superiors

7. What happens when the Borains arrive at the mine to work?
(a) the miners on strike gather there
(b) Etienne talks them out of working
(c) the miners kill them
(d) nothing

8. Why does Lantier set up a meeting with the miners?
(a) to distribute food
(b) to encourage them
(c) to end the strike
(d) to decide what to do

9. What does Rasseneur feel about the strike?
(a) it's working
(b) it should go on
(c) it's useless and absurd
(d) excited that it happened

10. What is one of the mines left working after the strike has spread?
(a) Voreiux
(b) Jean-Bart
(c) Utopedia
(d) Tappier-Jack

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

12. What does Maheu ask of Hennebeau?
(a) justice and for bread every day
(b) to be made a supervisor in the mine
(c) for money to feed his family
(d) to join the union

13. When is the provident fund started by Etienne empty?
(a) in January
(b) by December
(c) by November
(d) by March

14. Why is it difficult for the miners to get out of the Jean-Bart mine when the cables are cut?
(a) the number of miners
(b) the carts are destroyed
(c) the tunnel is flooded
(d) the safety ladders are destroyed

15. How much do the miners' actions at the Jean-Bart mine affect work there?
(a) it means the work force has to double
(b) it slows work down
(c) it is now impossible
(d) it doesn't affect it

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens after Chaval makes his announcement at the Advantage?

2. What does the mine owners announce Négrel is doing?

3. Who is knocked out in the Jean-Bart explosion?

4. What do the miners do at the entrance to the mine?

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

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