2. What is the choice Fr Paneloux talks about in his sermon?
(a) Treating the plague or letting it run its course in patients.
(b) Losing faith or sacrificing oneself for it.
(c) Trusting God or trusting in yourself and Science.
(d) Choice between a secular and a religious life.

3. 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.

4. What is different about Tarrou's journal at this point?
(a) It is written in red ink.
(b) He writes only on every second line.
(c) It is harder to read and not so well organised.
(d) It is full of fantasy.

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

6. For which people has the plague not ended?
(a) Those who have no-one to greet them on arrival.
(b) Staff in the municipal offices.
(c) The doctors.
(d) Priests and nuns.

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

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

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

10. Why does Tarrou thank Rieux?
(a) For looking after him.
(b) For not charging him.
(c) For telling him the truth.
(d) For getting special serum for him.

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

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

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

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

15. Having made his decision, what must Rambert now give up?
(a) A large income.
(b) His nationality/citizenship.
(c) His job at the newspaper.
(d) Happiness with his wife.