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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 think about the illness?
(a) He thinks it is asthma.
(b) He thinks it is tuberculosis.
(c) He thinks it is plague.
(d) He thinks it is an unknown disease.

2. After the sermon, what happens in the town?
(a) People go back to work.
(b) People panic.
(c) People are motivated to help the plague victims.
(d) People couldn't care less.

3. What does Grand reveal?
(a) That he is in disguise.
(b) That he wrote the sermon.
(c) That he has a secret girlfriend.
(d) That he is writing a novel.

4. Why don't all sufferers have hospital treatment?
(a) They die before they can get to hospital.
(b) There are not enough beds at the hospital.
(c) Dr Rieux has quarantined them.
(d) They have no transport.

5. What important meeting takes place?
(a) The Prefect meets with ratcatchers.
(b) The Prefect meets a committee of doctors.
(c) The Prefect meets a committee of concerned citizens.
(d) The Prefect meets Dr. Rieux's wife.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What point is Camus making through this chapter?

3. Who is Jean Tarrou?

4. Why does Rieux ask Tarrou to do this?

5. How does the Spaniard spend his days?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Fr. Paneloux tell the people in his sermon at High Mass?

4. What do you think is interesting about Grand?

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

6. What is the main function of the city of Oran?

7. Who is Joseph Grand?

8. What does Tarrou record about M. Othon?

9. Who is Jean Tarrou?

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

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