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

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

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

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

7. 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) It would be too upsetting for them.
(d) They are not able achieve the strict dress code.

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

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

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

11. Why is M. Othon's release from camp delayed?
(a) There is suspicion that he has plague.
(b) He has not done the paperwork.
(c) There has been a mistake.
(d) He has upset the Prefect.

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

13. What news does Rieux receive next day?
(a) That his wife has died.
(b) That Tarrou has died.
(c) That he has won a bravery award.
(d) That he is bankrupt.

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

15. Why are individual burials dispensed with?
(a) The gravediggers are threatening to go on strike.
(b) People cannot afford expensive funerals.
(c) The cemetery is full.
(d) The death rate is too high to keep pace.