The Plague Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 135 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Plague Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 135 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rieux tell Rambert?

2. What does Rambert anticipate happening when he meets his wife again?

3. Having made his decision, what must Rambert now give up?

4. What is happening across the road from Grand's building?

5. Why does Tarrou go home with Cottard?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the reason for Rambert's decision?

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

4. In Part 4 Chapter 3, what is the situation regarding the plague serum?

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

6. Comment on the 'reality' behind the phenomenon of the Oran people, now free of the plague, walking the streets.

7. Has Cottard really gained from his profiteering during the plague?

8. What is unusual about Tarrou's illness?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Among The Plague's themes is that of moral choice. Explain what is meant by moral choice. What is moral and what is not moral in the context of the plague at Oran? There is much to admire in Rieux, Tarrou and Grand, but is it possible to sympathize at all with Cottard? Write a thoughtful reflective essay.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the characters of Tarrou, Grand and Cottard. In what ways do these characters develop during the course of the novel? In what ways are their stories resolved?

Essay Topic 3

The Plague contains few female characters, yet while they might be 'off stage' women are important to the men who are the novel's main characters. In an essay, show how the minds and actions of Rieux, Rambert and Grand are influenced by the women they love.

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