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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What weather conditions set in after the sermon?
(a) There is snow.
(b) There is a heatwave.
(c) There is a hurricane.
(d) The weather is unchanged.

2. What important change in people's behavior does Tarrou record?
(a) That nobody laughs, except drunks.
(b) That they are more tolerant of drunks.
(c) That everyone laughs, especially drunks.
(d) That they laugh at the plague.

3. How do people find out about the plague death rate?
(a) On television.
(b) Via radio broadcasts.
(c) By reading the newspapers.
(d) By word of mouth.

4. In what way has Grand's marriage affected his future?
(a) He moved to Oran with his wife to escape her father.
(b) He left college and took a boring job.
(c) His became depressed because he found his wife boring.
(d) He finished college but could only get a boring job.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who questions Cottard?

2. What is Rieux worried about?

3. What does Rieux tell Rambert?

4. What strongly motivates Rambert's plan to escape.

5. In what activity has Cottard become involved?

(see the answer key)

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