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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is at the core of Rambert's problem?
(a) He knows money can buy happiness but to get it, he'd have to steal.
(b) A fear that his wife will divorce him.
(c) A struggle between doing the right thing or chasing his own happiness.
(d) He is afraid of making decisions.

2. What does the Prefect order?
(a) A week of prayer.
(b) A bonfire and fireworks night.
(c) The street lighting is to be turned on again.
(d) That food stores should open on Sundays.

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

4. Why does Tarrou go home with Cottard?
(a) Cottard has a present for him.
(b) Cottard is unwell.
(c) He is invited for dinner.
(d) Cottard insists.

5. 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.

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

7. How did Tarrou respond to his father's court performance?
(a) He had compassion for the accused.
(b) He was embarrassed.
(c) He thought the accused deserved his fate.
(d) He was very proud of his father.

8. What was Tarrou's father's occupation?
(a) He was a concert pianist.
(b) He was a doctor.
(c) He was a prosecuting attorney.
(d) He was an undertaker.

9. What is the prime factor in his decision?
(a) His conscience.
(b) His finances.
(c) His love.
(d) Dr. Rieux's support.

10. What is happening across the road from Grand's building?
(a) Someone is firing shots into the street.
(b) Someone is threatening to commit suicide.
(c) Someone has taken a hostage onto the roof.
(d) There is a fire.

11. What does Rieux do with Grand's manuscript?
(a) He reads it and offers to find Grand a literary agent.
(b) He burns it, only because Grand demands it.
(c) He burns it out of spite.
(d) He accidentally knocks it into the fire.

12. Which trio of men develop a close friendship?
(a) Rieux, Fr, Paneloux and Rambert
(b) Cottard, Rieux and Cottard.
(c) Tarrou, Othon and Cottard.
(d) Rieux, Tarrou and Grand.

13. What happens when the man shoots into the street?
(a) Grand is killed.
(b) A young woman is killed.
(c) He runs out of ammunition.
(d) A dog is killed.

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

15. What does Rambert anticipate happening when he meets his wife again?
(a) He has changed, so will reject her.
(b) Things will be over between them.
(c) She will worry that he has lost weight.
(d) Instant happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character cannot be saved by the serum?

2. Having made his decision, what must Rambert now give up?

3. Tarrou's opinion of Grand is:

4. What happens when Rieux tries to get Grand into the car?

5. How is Rambert's wife arriving?

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