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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. How do the people of Oran react to the sermon at High Mass?
(a) People are very much in agreement.
(b) People reject it completely and become angry.
(c) It's an enthusiastic reaction.
(d) It's a mixed reaction.

5. What else does Dr Rieux muse about in relation to the plague?
(a) Its use as a biological weapon.
(b) Its symptoms/manifestations.
(c) Its power.
(d) Its geography.

6. An unusual thing about the city is that:
(a) Everybody has a garden.
(b) It is famous for its plants and animals.
(c) It has no native plants or animals.
(d) It has abundant water.

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

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

9. Who removes the dead rat from Dr Rieux's landing?
(a) M. Othon.
(b) The concierge.
(c) Dr Rieux.
(d) Mrs Rieux.

10. Who comes with M. Joseph Grand to see Dr Rieux?
(a) M. Tarrou.
(b) The police inspector.
(c) Cardinal Richelieu.
(d) M. Cottard.

11. Why is M. Grand an interesting character?
(a) He leads an adventurous life.
(b) He has discovered something amazing hidden in the municipal archives.
(c) His life is not fulfilling, yet there is a mystery about him.
(d) He has solved a great mystery.

12. How does the Spaniard spend his days?
(a) Counting rats.
(b) Counting dried peas.
(c) Reading.
(d) Writing a novel.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do people find out about the plague death rate?

2. What important meeting takes place?

3. What is the problem with the shipment of serum?

4. What is Rieux's attitude to religion and God?

5. After the sermon, what happens in the town?

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