In Germinal Why Was Zola Able to Portray the Plight

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Multiple Choice

In Germinal why was Zola able to portray the plight of the French coal miner so realistically?

• A)He came from a coal mining family
• B)He went into a mine to research it
• C)He had worked in a mine in his teens
• D)He had read Charles Dickens's novels

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