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

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

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

5. What important meeting takes place?
(a) The Prefect meets a committee of concerned citizens.
(b) The Prefect meets Dr. Rieux's wife.
(c) The Prefect meets a committee of doctors.
(d) The Prefect meets with ratcatchers.

6. Who questions Cottard?
(a) A public health official.
(b) Inspector Clouseau.
(c) M. Tarrou.
(d) The police inspector.

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

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

9. What causes panic in the town?
(a) The number of people dying from plague.
(b) A possible attack from Germany.
(c) The plague of rats.
(d) The number of rat deaths.

10. Who makes the order to close the town?
(a) The French President.
(b) Dr. Rieux.
(c) The Prefect.
(d) M. Othon.

11. Who volunteers to help Rieux?
(a) Paneloux.
(b) Tarrou.
(c) Rambert.
(d) Cottard.

12. Why don't all sufferers have hospital treatment?
(a) They die before they can get to hospital.
(b) They have no transport.
(c) Dr Rieux has quarantined them.
(d) There are not enough beds at the hospital.

13. Why is use of the telephone severely restricted?
(a) It is too expensive.
(b) Because there is only one line available.
(c) The lines have been congested.
(d) Because doctors need the phone lines open.

14. What does Rieux ask Jean Tarrou to do for him?
(a) To write to his wife for him.
(b) To write a journal documenting the plague.
(c) To write to the local authorities about the rats.
(d) To provide funding for treating plague victims.

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