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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tarrou's response to the ideas in the High Mass sermon?
(a) He believes in collective punishment as truth.
(b) He believes the ideas are sound.
(c) He does not believe in collective punishment.
(d) He does not think the ideas are worth discussing.

2. In what era is the story set?
(a) 1940s, shortly after World War II.
(b) 1916, during World War I.
(c) During the French Revolution.
(d) 1940s during World War II.

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

4. Who must Rieux take with him when he has to evacuate a plague victim?
(a) A police officer.
(b) Two other doctors.
(c) A nurse.
(d) A judge and a second doctor.

5. How has Rieux's work-load increased?
(a) He is now required to treat 100 patients per day.
(b) He has to do research to produce plague serum, treat patients and administer a hospital.
(c) He has to treat plague vistims, experiment on rats and run a 500-bed plague hospital.
(d) He now treats patients as well as administering a 500-bed plague hospital.

6. To whom does Rieux disclose that the apris serum is not ideally effective?
(a) His wife.
(b) Rambert.
(c) His mother.
(d) Grand.

7. By what means do influential town leaders hope to resist the plague?
(a) Organising a Week of Sacrifice.
(b) Disinfecting the streets.
(c) Organising a Week of Prayer.
(d) Inoculating the population.

8. Where do notices about the disease appear?
(a) In magazines, posters and conema advertising.
(b) In newspapers and on posters.
(c) In cinema advertisements.
(d) By direct mail put through letter-boxes.

9. What is Fr Paneloux's religious order?
(a) He is a Dominican.
(b) He is a Franciscan.
(c) He is a Discalced Carmelite.
(d) He is a Jesuit.

10. Why hasn't M. Grand been able to correct the mistake made about his promotion?
(a) He cannot find the time.
(b) He cannot find the right words.
(c) He cannot find his application form.
(d) The authorities will not allow him to do this.

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

12. What is M. Grand's job?
(a) He is a clerk in the Municipal Office.
(b) He is Manager at the Municipal Office.
(c) He is a clerk at the hospital.
(d) He is a bank manager.

13. What point is Camus making through this chapter?
(a) That we should accept musery.
(b) That plague is incurable.
(c) That isolation increases human misery.
(d) That human beings can cope quite well in isolation.

14. What important information is given in the notices?
(a) Cases of vever are to be treated at home after they are reported, a black mark has to be painted on the door of a plague house and volunteers are needed for trial of a serum.
(b) Cases of fever are to be treated by Dr Rieux, the rats are to be exteminated and the water supply monitored.
(c) Cases of fever are to be reported, rats will be exterminated and the water supply monitored.
(d) Cases of fever are to be reported and a bounty has been placed on rats.

15. With what does Rieux contrast pictures of the plague through history?
(a) Cottard's predicament.
(b) Pictures of Oran's parks and gardens.
(c) The tranquil and beautiful spring day.
(d) A photograph of his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator tells us that the city is:

2. What important change in people's behavior does Tarrou record?

3. What does Rieux ask Jean Tarrou to do for him?

4. What creative problem does Grand have?

5. How does the Spaniard spend his days?

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