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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What decison does Rambert make?
(a) To buy a new apartment with a view over the bay.
(b) To escape and return to his wife.
(c) To smuggle medicines into Oran.
(d) He decides to stay and help to fight the plague.

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

3. What happens on January 25th?
(a) Authorities announce that the epidemic is over.
(b) There is a parade with fireworks.
(c) Dr. Rieux turns 40.
(d) The city gates are reopened.

4. How are people coping as the plague continues?
(a) They are full of fear and drink to excess.
(b) They become very religious and attend Mass evry day.
(c) They become indifferent to what is happening to them.
(d) They are in despair and suicides are frequent.

5. With what does Dr. Rieux treat this patient?
(a) Dr. Castel's serum.
(b) Mustard plasters and cupping.
(c) Penicillin.
(d) An ancient garlic compound.

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

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

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

9. What is preventing Rieux's visit to Grand and Cottard?
(a) A police directive.
(b) He has to look after his mother.
(c) A police cordon.
(d) He is worried about wasting more time.

10. How does Rieux find out about his wife's condition?
(a) He calls the house physician.
(b) He sends a telegram.
(c) He writes to the sanatorium,
(d) He calls his wife.

11. What does Rieux tell Rambert?
(a) That there are always other women.
(b) That it is irresponsible to put love first.
(c) That he is not wrong to put love first.
(d) That he might put people in danger.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rieux encourage Tarrou?

2. What does Rieux confide?

3. When did Tarrou's mother die?

4. Who ecomes general secretary to the squads of volunteers?

5. Why does Rieux weep?

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