View a FREE sample

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) The plague wrkers.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

2. What does Rieux confide?
(a) That his wife is getting much better.
(b) That he has been profiteering from the plague.
(c) That he is in despair and contemplating suicide.
(d) That his wife's condition has worsened.

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

4. What happens when the man shoots into the street?
(a) A young woman is killed.
(b) A dog is killed.
(c) Grand is killed.
(d) He runs out of ammunition.

5. What does Dr. Rieux fear?
(a) That corpses will be piled in the streets.
(b) That the church will make a lot of money from the burials.
(c) That rats will eat the corpses.
(d) That he will himself catch the plague.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarrou's opinion of Grand is:

2. How did Tarrou respond to his father's court performance?

3. For which people has the plague not ended?

4. Why are many families not allowed to attend the funerals of loved ones?

5. In what activity has Cottard become involved?

Short Essay Questions

1. Comment on the change in M. Othon.

2. What choice does Rambert make in Part 4 Chapter 2?

3. What is the effect of the child's death upon the other characters?

4. What do you think has led Dr. Rieux to unburden himself to Grand?

5. What is the reason for Rambert's decision?

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

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

8. Which characters now volunteer as plague workers?

9. What is unusual about Tarrou's illness?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 852 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample