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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) Kissing and embracing in the street.
(c) Making audio tapes.
(d) Sending telegrams.

2. What is the apparent result of this weather condition?
(a) There is an increase in the number of plague victims.
(b) Rats are washed into the water supply.
(c) The number of plague victims decreases.
(d) The rain refreshes everyone.

3. How do people express their feelings after the sermon?
(a) People line up to volunteer to help their fellow citizens.
(b) There are huge numbers of letters to the editor of the local paper.
(c) There is violence and many people try to escape.
(d) There is an open forum where people can debate the issues.

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

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

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

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

8. What does Grand reveal?
(a) That he wrote the sermon.
(b) That he is in disguise.
(c) That he is writing a novel.
(d) That he has a secret girlfriend.

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

10. This chapter focuses on which character in the novel?
(a) Rieux.
(b) Othon.
(c) Rambert.
(d) Tarrou.

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

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

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

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

15. What important information is given in the notices?
(a) Cases of fever are to be reported and a bounty has been placed on rats.
(b) Cases of fever are to be reported, rats will be exterminated and the water supply monitored.
(c) 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.
(d) Cases of fever are to be treated by Dr Rieux, the rats are to be exteminated and the water supply monitored.

Short Answer Questions

1. An unusual thing about the city is that:

2. What point is Camus making through this chapter?

3. Who is also in attendance when Cottard is questioned?

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

5. Why are people seeking pleasure?

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