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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does Rieux disclose that the apris serum is not ideally effective?
(a) His wife.
(b) His mother.
(c) Rambert.
(d) Grand.

2. Who volunteers to help Rieux?
(a) Paneloux.
(b) Tarrou.
(c) Rambert.
(d) Cottard.

3. What is making things difficult for cinema owners?
(a) They can't get ushers because of the plague.
(b) They are only allowed to show newsreels.
(c) They have to charge lower admission fees.
(d) They have no new films to show.

4. What action has Dr. Rieux already taken?
(a) He has started to manufacture anti-plague serum.
(b) He has bought a train ticket out of town.
(c) He has organised mass poisonings of rats.
(d) He has ordered supplies of anti-plague serum.

5. Where do notices about the disease appear?
(a) By direct mail put through letter-boxes.
(b) In cinema advertisements.
(c) In magazines, posters and conema advertising.
(d) In newspapers and on posters.

6. Who comes with M. Joseph Grand to see Dr Rieux?
(a) The police inspector.
(b) M. Tarrou.
(c) Cardinal Richelieu.
(d) M. Cottard.

7. How does Rieux treat the plague victims?
(a) He applies poultices to the abscesses and makes the people stay indoors.
(b) He can do nothing.
(c) He lances and drains the abscesses.
(d) He injects them with penicillin.

8. Who must Rieux take with him when he has to evacuate a plague victim?
(a) A judge and a second doctor.
(b) A police officer.
(c) A nurse.
(d) Two other doctors.

9. In what predicament does Rambert find himself?
(a) He is trapped in Oran away from his wife.
(b) He cannot file the news story.
(c) He is afraid to tell anyone he has a fever.
(d) He has missed out on a job as Editor of his paper.

10. What reason does Cottard give for his suicide attempt?
(a) 'A silent grief.'
(b) 'A grief observed.'
(c) 'A delayed grief.'
(d) 'A secret grief.'

11. What reason does Grand give for his problem?
(a) He is not satisfied with the words.
(b) He is not satisfied with his ideas.
(c) He has become bored with the whole thing.
(d) He is not satisfied with the paper he is using.

12. Who questions Cottard?
(a) The police inspector.
(b) Inspector Clouseau.
(c) A public health official.
(d) M. Tarrou.

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

14. The narrator tells us that the city is:
(a) Modern.
(b) Exciting and vibrant.
(c) Boring.
(d) Needs better design.

15. What interesting character enters the novel at this point?
(a) The Oran water supply.
(b) The plague itself.
(c) Inspector Clouseau.
(d) Dr Rieux's mother-in-law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tarrou say about Othon as a father?

2. Why are people seeking pleasure?

3. Who removes the dead rat from Dr Rieux's landing?

4. Who comes with Grand to see Dr Rieux?

5. What is the focus in the questioning of Cottard?

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