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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Rieux's attitude to religion and God?
(a) He believes ardently and attends Mass regularly.
(b) He is not a believer.
(c) He is open to being converted.
(d) He believes religion is all right some of the time.

3. Who is also in attendance when Cottard is questioned?
(a) Fr. Pertelote
(b) Dr Rieux.
(c) M. Grand.
(d) Inspector Clouseau.

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

5. What is Rieux worried about?
(a) That the disease will affect his wife.
(b) That the trains will stop running.
(c) That the disease will get out of hand and kill half the population.
(d) That the people will panic.

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

7. Who is Jean Tarrou?
(a) A railway worker.
(b) A man of independent means (comfortable income).
(c) A government official.
(d) A journalist.

8. What is the character's focus for action in this chapter?
(a) Communication with the outside world.
(b) A spouse
(c) Public health.
(d) A planned escape from Oran.

9. In what important way has the plague changed?
(a) It has become much more severe.
(b) It has changed from bubonic to harmonic.
(c) It has changed from bubonic to pneumonic.
(d) It has changed from pneumonic to bubonic.

10. What important change in people's behavior does Tarrou record?
(a) That they laugh at the plague.
(b) That everyone laughs, especially drunks.
(c) That they are more tolerant of drunks.
(d) That nobody laughs, except drunks.

11. What sort of communication is forbidden?
(a) Making audio tapes.
(b) Writing or receiving letters.
(c) Kissing and embracing in the street.
(d) Sending telegrams.

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

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

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

15. Why has the journalist Raymod Rambert come to Oran?
(a) To investigate the welfare of Arabs in Oran.
(b) To research suicide deaths in Oran.
(c) To interview the polic magistrate.
(d) To investigate the plague of rats in Oran.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is use of the telephone severely restricted?

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

3. Why are people seeking pleasure?

4. What methods does the character use to attain the goal or goals?

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

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