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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What problem has the Prefect to deal with, making his job harder?
(a) People are pressurising him to sack Dr. Rieux.
(b) His wife is having an affair and he doesn't know with whom.
(c) People keep taking their frustrations out on him and ask him to bend the rules for them.
(d) He has to deal with a rebellion and drunkenness.

8. What is the main message of the closing sermon at High Mass?
(a) God no longer cares about humanity.
(b) God has sent the plague to force people to repent.
(c) People smoke and drink too much.
(d) God is love.

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

10. 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.

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

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

13. 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 with ratcatchers.
(d) The Prefect meets a committee of doctors.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With what does Rieux contrast pictures of the plague through history?

3. In what country is the story set?

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

5. Why is use of the telephone severely restricted?

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