3. What strongly motivates Rambert's plan to escape.
(a) Self-love and preservation.
(b) Fear of the plague.
(c) Fear he will lose his job.
(d) Love for a woman.

4. Who ecomes general secretary to the squads of volunteers?
(a) M. Cottard.
(b) M. Grand
(c) Dr. Castel
(d) M. Tarrou.

5. How does Rieux break with policy?
(a) He smuggles in an experimental serum.
(b) He doesn't tell the Prefect that Tarrou is ill.
(c) He treats Tarrou at home.
(d) He engages an expensive private nurse for Tarrou.

6. Why are newspaper reports optimistic?
(a) Because the authorities have given instructions to do that.
(b) Because the reporters are unaware of the true situation.
(c) Because the editors have given instructions to print happy stories.
(d) Because reporters have been threatened if they tell the truth.

7. Why do workers take on the risky business of burying plague victims?
(a) They get free uniforms.
(b) People are public-spirited and feel an obligation.
(c) The pay is high.
(d) They like the outdoors and exercise.

8. When did Tarrou's mother die?
(a) When Tarrou was ten.
(b) Ten years previously.
(c) Two years previously.
(d) When Tarrou was fifteen.

9. Which other character does Tarrou discuss in this part of his journal?
(a) Fr, Paneloux.
(b) M. Grand.
(c) M. Othon.
(d) M. Cottard.

10. What does Dr. Rieux fear?
(a) That corpses will be piled in the streets.
(b) That rats will eat the corpses.
(c) That the church will make a lot of money from the burials.
(d) That he will himself catch the plague.

11. What does Rieux confide?
(a) That his wife's condition has worsened.
(b) That his wife is getting much better.
(c) That he has been profiteering from the plague.
(d) That he is in despair and contemplating suicide.

12. What is the reason for cautious optimism in the town?
(a) A cure might have been found for the plague.
(b) The Prefect has been seen smiling.
(c) Plague deaths are way down.
(d) The plague has disappeared.

13. What important experience shaped Tarrou's view of capital punishment?
(a) Reading about Nazi Germany.
(b) Watching executions in Burma.
(c) Watching executions in Hungary.
(d) Watching murderers set free without punishment.

14. How is food distributed to the people in the camp?
(a) The food is sent in by the Red Cross and dropped from helicopters.
(b) By donkey.
(c) Via small electric trucks.
(d) The food is provided by relatives.

15. What was the elder Tarrou's obsession?
(a) Lego.
(b) Watching court cases.
(c) The railway directory.
(d) Model trains.