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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way is the character similar emotionally to the townspeople?
(a) Both are indifferent to the world.
(b) Both are cynical.
(c) Both are jubilant.
(d) Both are despondent.

2. In what predicament does Rambert find himself?
(a) He is afraid to tell anyone he has a fever.
(b) He has missed out on a job as Editor of his paper.
(c) He cannot file the news story.
(d) He is trapped in Oran away from his wife.

3. What does Dr. Rieux urge the committee to do?
(a) Start public health measures as if the disease is plague.
(b) Get rid of all rats.
(c) Avoid panicking the citizens.
(d) Inoculate the Prefect with anti-plague serum.

4. How does Rieux caution Tarrou?
(a) He tells him he is at risk and must have an inoculation.
(b) He cautions him against having an inoculation because the serum is weak.
(c) He tells him not to drink the water.
(d) He tells him there is no risk if he has an inoculation.

5. What is the town's response to the Week of Prayer?
(a) They resist it, but it happens anyway.
(b) Some people attend Mass, but most party on.
(c) People are indifferent, uninterested.
(d) There is heavy attendance at Mass.

6. After the sermon, what happens in the town?
(a) People are motivated to help the plague victims.
(b) People panic.
(c) People go back to work.
(d) People couldn't care less.

7. What does Dr. Rieux think about the illness?
(a) He thinks it is plague.
(b) He thinks it is an unknown disease.
(c) He thinks it is asthma.
(d) He thinks it is tuberculosis.

8. What does Tarrou say about Othon as a father?
(a) That he is a loving disciplinarian.
(b) That he is very demanding and controlling.
(c) That he cannot control his children.
(d) That he is neglectful of his children.

9. Why are people seeking pleasure?
(a) They are careless.
(b) They are rebelling against the church.
(c) It's a response to harsh new laws.
(d) It's a response to their lives being in danger.

10. Where is this information to be found?
(a) In the newspapers.
(b) In Tarrou's journal.
(c) On walls, as graffiti.
(d) On walls, as in public notices.

11. How do people find out about the plague death rate?
(a) By reading the newspapers.
(b) By word of mouth.
(c) Via radio broadcasts.
(d) On television.

12. What creative problem does Grand have?
(a) He can't do any research because of the plague.
(b) He is stuck on the first sentence.
(c) He is stuck on page 6.
(d) He is having trouble with creating an antagonist.

13. Who comes with Grand to see Dr Rieux?
(a) The chief of police.
(b) M. Cottard.
(c) Mme. de Valois.
(d) M. Tarrou.

14. How does Rieux treat the plague victims?
(a) He can do nothing.
(b) He lances and drains the abscesses.
(c) He applies poultices to the abscesses and makes the people stay indoors.
(d) He injects them with penicillin.

15. In what way are people allowed to communicate with those outside the city?
(a) Telegram.
(b) Carrier pigeons.
(c) They are not allowed to communicate at all.
(d) Mobile phones.

Short Answer Questions

1. What human attitude concerns Rieux?

2. By what means do influential town leaders hope to resist the plague?

3. Who makes the order to close the town?

4. Why has the journalist Raymod Rambert come to Oran?

5. What is the main message of the closing sermon at High Mass?

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