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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. What is Dr. Castel's work?
(a) He is a hospital administrator and Dr. Rieux's boss.
(b) Undertaking research about the rat population.
(c) Developing a more effective plague serum.
(d) Treating victims of the plague.

5. How is Rambert's wife arriving?
(a) By car.
(b) By train.
(c) By air from Casablanca.
(d) By ship from Marseilles.

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

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

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

9. Tarrou's opinion of Grand is:
(a) That he is unlikeable and annoying.
(b) That he is a man of quiet courage.
(c) That he is nondescript.
(d) That he is arrogant and controlling.

10. What criticism is made of Fr Paneloux after the sermon?
(a) That he has committed sacrilege.
(b) That he has committed polysemy.
(c) That he can't be heard at the back of the church.
(d) That he has committed simony.

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

12. Who is now an important plague victim?
(a) M. Othon's little boy.
(b) Dr. Rieux's mother.
(c) M Othon's wife.
(d) Dr. Castel.

13. Which prominent citizen joins the volunteers?
(a) Fr Paneloux.
(b) Cardinal Richelieu.
(c) Dr. Castel.
(d) The Prefect.

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

15. Which other character does Tarrou discuss in this part of his journal?
(a) M. Grand.
(b) M. Cottard.
(c) Fr, Paneloux.
(d) M. Othon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Dr. Castel achieved?

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

3. With whom is Fr Paneloux billeted?

4. What is now possible for Rambert?

5. What is the reason for cautious optimism in the town?

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