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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What error does Rieux think he has made?
(a) He has counted too much on time.
(b) He has counted too much on Castel's serum.
(c) He has counted too much on his mother.
(d) He has given Tarrou the wrong serum.

2. What is taking place in the town?
(a) People are visiting graves of plague victims.
(b) Joyful celebration.
(c) Looting.
(d) Street races.

3. What was Tarrou's father's occupation?
(a) He was a concert pianist.
(b) He was a prosecuting attorney.
(c) He was a doctor.
(d) He was an undertaker.

4. What is Rieux's opinion about the case?
(a) That it is hopeless.
(b) That the boy is malingering.
(c) That it is mild.
(d) That the boy has a good chance of recovery.

5. Where is M. Othon quarantined?
(a) A hospital.
(b) A camp.
(c) In the city jail.
(d) His home.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Tarrou respond to his father's court performance?

2. Why does Tarrou go home with Cottard?

3. What is different about Tarrou's journal at this point?

4. The plague is changing in two ways. What is the first way?

5. What additional friendship has Tarrou made?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are local printing firms and newspapers able to profit by people's fear of the plague?

2. What is the effect of the child's death upon the other characters?

3. What gives the people cause for hope in Part 5 Chapter 1?

4. What do you think has led Dr. Rieux to unburden himself to Grand?

5. Account for Cottard's behavior in Part 5 Chapter 5.

6. In what way is Cottard shown to be different from other characters in The Plague?

7. Do you think Dr. Castel's serum is likely to be of help?

8. Explain the nature of the irony in the beginning of Part 5 Chapter 3.

9. Account for the difference tenor and content of Fr Paneloux's new sermon, compared with that he gave at the conclusion of the Week of Prayer.

10. In what ways do Tarrou's plague symptoms first appear?

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