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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What sight disturbs Rieux as he drives home?
(a) A woman carrying a dead rat that is bleeding horribly.
(b) A woman screaming in agony and dripping blood.
(c) A woman throwing dead rats in litter bins.
(d) People attacking a screaming woman who is covered in blood.

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

5. How many people have contracted the disease and recovered?
(a) One.
(b) Forty.
(c) Everone has recovered.
(d) None. All have died.

6. The narrator tells us that the city is:
(a) Boring.
(b) Needs better design.
(c) Exciting and vibrant.
(d) Modern.

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

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

9. In what country is the story set?
(a) France.
(b) Nigeria.
(c) Algeria.
(d) Armenia.

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

11. What interesting character enters the novel at this point?
(a) The plague itself.
(b) Dr Rieux's mother-in-law.
(c) The Oran water supply.
(d) Inspector Clouseau.

12. What is one aspect of the plague that Dr Rieux considers?
(a) Its treatment.
(b) Its future.
(c) Its cure.
(d) Its history.

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

14. Why are the townspeople not told the disease is plague?
(a) Inspector Clouseau has arrived.
(b) Dr Rieux is panicking.
(c) The authorities are not sure that the disease is.
(d) The authorities fear a panic will result.

15. In what way has Grand's marriage affected his future?
(a) He moved to Oran with his wife to escape her father.
(b) His became depressed because he found his wife boring.
(c) He finished college but could only get a boring job.
(d) He left college and took a boring job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one result of the sealed city?

2. Who is Joseph Grand?

3. How has Rieux's work-load increased?

4. Who is the first victim of the plague?

5. What is the Spaniard's medical condition?

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