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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Etienne talk about with his new friend?
(a) the war
(b) their families and homes
(c) the strike
(d) girlfriends

2. Why does Etienne come out from hiding?
(a) he wants to see sunlight
(b) Catherine and he are to be married
(c) Chaval found out where he is
(d) he thinks the police quit looking for him

3. What promise to Etienne does Chaval break?
(a) to help Jeanlin
(b) to let go of Catherine
(c) to help feed the Maheus
(d) to keep the Jean-Bart miners from working

4. Where does Lantier hide?
(a) in Jeanlin's burrow
(b) in Paris
(c) in the Advantage
(d) in the forest

5. How does each supervisor or mine director get out of dealing with the miners?
(a) they ignore them
(b) they claim to have no authority
(c) they get police protection
(d) they leave town

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the miners follow Lantier as a leader?

2. What is one of the mines left working after the strike has spread?

3. Why is life at the Maheus so difficult?

4. Who intervenes at the Hennebearus' to save Cécile?

5. Of what does Lantier try to convince Deneulin?

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