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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 important experience shaped Tarrou's view of capital punishment?
(a) Watching executions in Hungary.
(b) Reading about Nazi Germany.
(c) Watching executions in Burma.
(d) Watching murderers set free without punishment.

2. Why does Tarrou thank Rieux?
(a) For telling him the truth.
(b) For not charging him.
(c) For getting special serum for him.
(d) For looking after him.

3. Which is the second way?
(a) Most people suffer now from bubonic plague.
(b) The disease is now more like ebola.
(c) More patients are suffering pneumonic rather than bubonic plague.
(d) The plague is becoming more virulent.

4. Why are individual burials dispensed with?
(a) The cemetery is full.
(b) The death rate is too high to keep pace.
(c) The gravediggers are threatening to go on strike.
(d) People cannot afford expensive funerals.

5. In his struggle of conscience, who does Rambert resemble?
(a) The author, Albert Camus.
(b) Fr Paneloux
(c) Dr. Castel
(d) Dr. Rieux

Short Answer Questions

1. Who receives an invitation to the sermon?

2. What error does Rieux think he has made?

3. Why does Rieux weep?

4. How is M. Othon's predicament solved?

5. What has Dr. Castel achieved?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In what way is Cottard shown to be different from other characters in The Plague?

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. What is Tarrou's philosophy?

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