1. The opposition newspapers would be those owned by parties opposed to the current government, and therefore seeking to make use of the shootings to discredit the leadership.
2. How has the strike affected Deneulin?
3. Probably no other 19th-century writer would have dared to use a girl's first menstruation in this way. What is Zola trying to symbolize here?
4. How does the relationship between Étienne and Rasseneur change?
5. How does the transfer of the abbé Ranvier fit in one the other events in this chapter?