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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dr. Rieux urge the committee to do?
(a) Start public health measures as if the disease is plague.
(b) Get rid of all rats.
(c) Inoculate the Prefect with anti-plague serum.
(d) Avoid panicking the citizens.

2. How do people find out about the plague death rate?
(a) By word of mouth.
(b) Via radio broadcasts.
(c) By reading the newspapers.
(d) On television.

3. What is Fr Paneloux's religious order?
(a) He is a Discalced Carmelite.
(b) He is a Dominican.
(c) He is a Jesuit.
(d) He is a Franciscan.

4. What measures is the Prefect forced to take?
(a) Putting armed guards at all liquor outlets and rationing water.
(b) Traffic control and rationing of food and electricity.
(c) Arresting anyone who drinks in the street and closing the cinemas.
(d) Traffic control, cinema closure and water rationing.

5. What is the main message of the closing sermon at High Mass?
(a) People smoke and drink too much.
(b) God is love.
(c) God no longer cares about humanity.
(d) God has sent the plague to force people to repent.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the sermon, what happens in the town?

2. In what way are people allowed to communicate with those outside the city?

3. What important information is given in the notices?

4. What does Tarrou say about Othon as a father?

5. Where is this information to be found?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Dr. Rieux worried about in Chapter 2?

2. What is one result of the sudden closing of the city gates?

3. Why have telegrams become the main means of contact ordinary people now have with the outside world?

4. Why is Mme. Rieux concerned about her son?

5. In what way do you think Tarrou and Rieux are of like mind?

6. In Part 2 Chapter 3, what measure is taken by the town leaders?

7. How does the relationship between Dr. Rieux and M. Grand develop?

8. What does Tarrou record about M. Othon?

9. What factors are making life stressful for Dr. Rieux?

10. What does M. Grand reveal in Part 2 Chapter 4?

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