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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the result of this treatment?
(a) The formula is patented.
(b) There is no change in his condition.
(c) The boy recovers quickly.
(d) The boy takes longer to die.

3. What does Tarrou reveal to Rambert about Rieux?
(a) That he is profiteering from the plague.
(b) That he has been unfaithful and his wife has left him.
(c) That his wife is in a sanatorium in another city.
(d) That his wife is being unfaithful and has left.

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

5. Which character cannot be saved by the serum?
(a) Mme. Rieux.
(b) M. Cottard.
(c) M. Othon.
(d) M. Grand.

6. What target audience has Fr Paneloux for his special sermon?
(a) The medical community.
(b) The plague wrkers.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

7. Who does Rieux confide in?
(a) Fr Paneloux
(b) Cottard.
(c) Grand.
(d) His mother.

8. In his struggle of conscience, who does Rambert resemble?
(a) Fr Paneloux
(b) The author, Albert Camus.
(c) Dr. Castel
(d) Dr. Rieux

9. What important Christian feast is ignored this year?
(a) Pentecost.
(b) Christmas.
(c) The Feast of the Assumption.
(d) All Souls' Day.

10. To what does Tarrou compare lawyers and judges?
(a) Gardeners.
(b) The elders of the Church.
(c) The plague.
(d) Saints.

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

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

13. The plague is changing in two ways. What is the first way?
(a) The death rate climbs dramatically.
(b) The death rate drops dramatically.
(c) People die only every second day.
(d) The death rate becomes steady,

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

15. Why does Rieux weep?
(a) He misses his wife.
(b) His mother is ill.
(c) For the loss of his friend and for his own medical impotence.
(d) He feels he has wasted his life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rieux confide?

2. What is preventing Rieux's visit to Grand and Cottard?

3. Where is M. Othon quarantined?

4. What error does Rieux think he has made?

5. Which prominent citizen joins the volunteers?

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