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

2. Why does Tarrou go home with Cottard?
(a) Cottard insists.
(b) He is invited for dinner.
(c) Cottard is unwell.
(d) Cottard has a present for him.

3. What does Tarrou reveal to Rambert about Rieux?
(a) That his wife is being unfaithful and has left.
(b) That he is profiteering from the plague.
(c) That he has been unfaithful and his wife has left him.
(d) That his wife is in a sanatorium in another city.

4. What is preventing Rieux's visit to Grand and Cottard?
(a) He has to look after his mother.
(b) He is worried about wasting more time.
(c) A police directive.
(d) A police cordon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the choice Fr Paneloux talks about in his sermon?

2. What news does his mother give to Rieux?

3. What does Rieux do with Grand's manuscript?

4. How do his friends try to help Grand?

5. Who receives an invitation to the sermon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Comment on the 'reality' behind the phenomenon of the Oran people, now free of the plague, walking the streets.

2. How are local printing firms and newspapers able to profit by people's fear of the plague?

3. What is the significance of M. Grand's struggle against the plague in Part 4 Chapter 7?

4. Explain the significance of The Plague's final paragraph.

5. Do you think Dr. Castel's serum is likely to be of help?

6. Account for Cottard's behavior in Part 5 Chapter 5.

7. In Part 4 Chapter 3, what is the situation regarding the plague serum?

8. Has Cottard really gained from his profiteering during the plague?

9. Explain the poignancy of Dr. Rieux's walk through the streets.

10. In what ways do Tarrou's plague symptoms first appear?

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