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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news does his mother give to Rieux?
(a) That the trains are running again.
(b) That she is sick.
(c) That Tarrou is sick.
(d) That she is leaving for Paris.

2. In what activity has Cottard become involved?
(a) Writing a novel.
(b) Volunteering to assist in the fight against the plague.
(c) Running guns to Mardeilles.
(d) Smuggling. (Profiteering from the plague.)

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

4. What is Rieux's opinion about the case?
(a) That the boy has a good chance of recovery.
(b) That the boy is malingering.
(c) That it is hopeless.
(d) That it is mild.

5. What becomes the last resort for disposal of corpses?
(a) Taken to a new cemetery in the desert.
(b) Burial at sea.
(c) Mass burial.
(d) Cremation.

6. To what does Dr. Rieux confess?
(a) That he is a secret believer in Christianity.
(b) That he is the narrator.
(c) That he did not love his wife.
(d) That he has stolen Tarrou's journal.

7. Where is Grand taken for treatment?
(a) Rieux and Tarrou look after him at home.
(b) The Catholic hospital.
(c) Dr Rieux's home.
(d) A military hospital.

8. What is up with Grand?
(a) He is exhausted.
(b) He is having a psychotic breakdown.
(c) He is afraid of Cottard.
(d) He has caught the plague.

9. Why are many families not allowed to attend the funerals of loved ones?
(a) They are not able achieve the strict dress code.
(b) It would be too upsetting for them.
(c) There are too many of them.
(d) They are in quarantine.

10. Who makes a rueful observance about the feast day?
(a) M. Grand.
(b) Dr. Rieux.
(c) M. Cottard.
(d) Dr. Rieux's mother.

11. How has Fr Paneloux assisted the community during the plague?
(a) He has preached supportive sermons.
(b) He has worked in hospitals.
(c) He has researched ancient inscriptions for plague remedies.
(d) He has said Mass every day.

12. How is M. Othon's predicament solved?
(a) The Prefect intervenes and sorts things out.
(b) The mislaid paperwork is found.
(c) Rambert threatens to write a news article about it.
(d) Rieux intervenes and sorts things out.

13. How does the city government respond to looting?
(a) All police leave is cancelled.
(b) Martial law and a curfew are imposed.
(c) Martial law is imposed and shops are boarded up at night.
(d) Looters are shot on sight.

14. Which is the second way?
(a) Most people suffer now from bubonic plague.
(b) The plague is becoming more virulent.
(c) The disease is now more like ebola.
(d) More patients are suffering pneumonic rather than bubonic plague.

15. What is Tarrou's opinion of his fellow human beings?
(a) He beieves they are more good than bad.
(b) He believes they are more bad than good.
(c) He believes they are more selfish than he is.
(d) He believes they lack courage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are newspaper reports optimistic?

2. Where is M. Othon quarantined?

3. How does Rieux break with policy?

4. What does Rieux do with Grand's manuscript?

5. The plague is changing in two ways. What is the first way?

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