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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city is the story set?
(a) The city of Casablanca.
(b) The city of Algiers.
(c) The city of Oran.
(d) The city of Aran.

2. By what means do influential town leaders hope to resist the plague?
(a) Inoculating the population.
(b) Organising a Week of Prayer.
(c) Disinfecting the streets.
(d) Organising a Week of Sacrifice.

3. What is the problem regarding the city gates?
(a) They cannot be closed.
(b) They were closed before the announcement was made.
(c) They were closed too late to make a difference.
(d) They are not high enough and people escape.

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

5. How is the city situated geographically?
(a) It is dominated by mountains.
(b) It is the middle of a plateau.
(c) It is close to a plateau.
(d) It is next to delightful coastal beaches.

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

7. Where is this information to be found?
(a) On walls, as graffiti.
(b) In Tarrou's journal.
(c) In the newspapers.
(d) On walls, as in public notices.

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

9. What important change in people's behavior does Tarrou record?
(a) That they are more tolerant of drunks.
(b) That everyone laughs, especially drunks.
(c) That nobody laughs, except drunks.
(d) That they laugh at the plague.

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

11. What measures is the Prefect forced to take?
(a) Traffic control, cinema closure and water rationing.
(b) Putting armed guards at all liquor outlets and rationing water.
(c) Traffic control and rationing of food and electricity.
(d) Arresting anyone who drinks in the street and closing the cinemas.

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

13. What is making things difficult for cinema owners?
(a) They can't get ushers because of the plague.
(b) They have to charge lower admission fees.
(c) They have no new films to show.
(d) They are only allowed to show newsreels.

14. How has Rieux's work-load increased?
(a) He is now required to treat 100 patients per day.
(b) He has to do research to produce plague serum, treat patients and administer a hospital.
(c) He now treats patients as well as administering a 500-bed plague hospital.
(d) He has to treat plague vistims, experiment on rats and run a 500-bed plague hospital.

15. What is the focus in the questioning of Cottard?
(a) Cottard's suicide attempt.
(b) Dr Rieux's professional treatment.
(c) Cottard's wife.
(d) Tarrou's journal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a symptom of the plague?

2. Who questions Cottard?

3. What action has Dr. Rieux already taken?

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

5. In what country is the story set?

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