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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 target audience has Fr Paneloux for his special sermon?
(a) The medical community.
(b) Women.
(c) The plague wrkers.
(d) Men.

2. What does Rieux tell Rambert?
(a) That there are always other women.
(b) That it is irresponsible to put love first.
(c) That he might put people in danger.
(d) That he is not wrong to put love first.

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

4. How is food distributed to the people in the camp?
(a) Via small electric trucks.
(b) By donkey.
(c) The food is sent in by the Red Cross and dropped from helicopters.
(d) The food is provided by relatives.

5. What has Dr. Castel achieved?
(a) He has brokered a deal with France to manufacture serum.
(b) He has produced a serum suitable for local conditions.
(c) He has isolated the plague bacillus for the first time.
(d) He has inoculated more people than Dr. Rieux.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which trio of men develop a close friendship?

2. What news does his mother give to Rieux?

3. What was Tarrou's father's occupation?

4. What important experience shaped Tarrou's view of capital punishment?

5. What is the situation with food supply?

Short Essay Questions

1. How can we tell that Tarrou is a force for good in the town?

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

3. Why cannot jubilation be complete at this point (Part 5 Chapter 1)?

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

5. Why is there a steady supply of workers taking care of burials?

6. Account for the difference tenor and content of Fr Paneloux's new sermon, compared with that he gave at the conclusion of the Week of Prayer.

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

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

9. What is unusual about Tarrou's illness?

10. Explain the nature of the irony in the beginning of Part 5 Chapter 3.

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