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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 is the focus in the questioning of Cottard?
(a) Tarrou's journal.
(b) Cottard's suicide attempt.
(c) Cottard's wife.
(d) Dr Rieux's professional treatment.

2. Who volunteers to help Rieux?
(a) Paneloux.
(b) Cottard.
(c) Rambert.
(d) Tarrou.

3. In what way has Grand's marriage affected his future?
(a) He left college and took a boring job.
(b) His became depressed because he found his wife boring.
(c) He moved to Oran with his wife to escape her father.
(d) He finished college but could only get a boring job.

4. What sight disturbs Rieux as he drives home?
(a) A woman throwing dead rats in litter bins.
(b) A woman carrying a dead rat that is bleeding horribly.
(c) A woman screaming in agony and dripping blood.
(d) People attacking a screaming woman who is covered in blood.

5. Who questions Cottard?
(a) The police inspector.
(b) Inspector Clouseau.
(c) A public health official.
(d) M. Tarrou.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has the journalist Raymod Rambert come to Oran?

2. Who comes with M. Joseph Grand to see Dr Rieux?

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

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

5. In what way is the character similar emotionally to the townspeople?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the situation with plague serum?

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

4. What is the problem about the announcements being made about the disease?

5. Who is Joseph Grand?

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

7. What does Tarrou record about M. Othon?

8. As described in Chapter 7, what are the first steps taken to deal with the crisis?

9. Who is Jean Tarrou?

10. How does the heatwave further discourage the citizens of Oran?

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