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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What human attitude concerns Rieux?
(a) Human prejudice and warmongering.
(b) Humans' inability to accept reality.
(c) Human infallibility.
(d) Humans' quick acceptance of reality.

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

4. What reason does Grand give for his problem?
(a) He has become bored with the whole thing.
(b) He is not satisfied with his ideas.
(c) He is not satisfied with the words.
(d) He is not satisfied with the paper he is using.

5. What is one result of the sealed city?
(a) People are more likely to get plague.
(b) The Prefect has a feeling of great power.
(c) People are cut off from loved ones.
(d) People are more likely to recover from plague.

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

14. What methods does the character use to attain the goal or goals?
(a) Sabotage.
(b) Civil disobedience, sabotage and direct action.
(c) Argument and sabotage.
(d) Argument and direct action.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What else does Dr Rieux muse about in relation to the plague?

2. Who removes the dead rat from Dr Rieux's landing?

3. Who makes the order to close the town?

4. Where is this information to be found?

5. In what way are people allowed to communicate with those outside the city?

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