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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is different about Tarrou's journal at this point?
(a) It is harder to read and not so well organised.
(b) It is full of fantasy.
(c) He writes only on every second line.
(d) It is written in red ink.

2. What is at the core of Rambert's problem?
(a) A fear that his wife will divorce him.
(b) He knows money can buy happiness but to get it, he'd have to steal.
(c) He is afraid of making decisions.
(d) A struggle between doing the right thing or chasing his own happiness.

3. How are people coping as the plague continues?
(a) They are in despair and suicides are frequent.
(b) They are full of fear and drink to excess.
(c) They become indifferent to what is happening to them.
(d) They become very religious and attend Mass evry day.

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

5. Why are many families not allowed to attend the funerals of loved ones?
(a) It would be too upsetting for them.
(b) They are not able achieve the strict dress code.
(c) They are in quarantine.
(d) There are too many of them.

6. What reason does Rieux give for writing his tale of the plague in Oran?
(a) As a record of those who were determined to resist the plague and heal its victims.
(b) To warn people about rats.
(c) As a gift for his mother and in memory of his wife.
(d) So everyone will know what an important person he has been.

7. Who ecomes general secretary to the squads of volunteers?
(a) M. Grand
(b) M. Cottard.
(c) Dr. Castel
(d) M. Tarrou.

8. How does the city government respond to looting?
(a) Martial law is imposed and shops are boarded up at night.
(b) All police leave is cancelled.
(c) Martial law and a curfew are imposed.
(d) Looters are shot on sight.

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

10. What makes Tarrou and Rieux very conscious of their isolation?
(a) Looking at a full moon.
(b) The fact that they never get mail from the outside world.
(c) The silences at night.
(d) The view from the terrace at the asthma patient's home.

11. What becomes the last resort for disposal of corpses?
(a) Mass burial.
(b) Taken to a new cemetery in the desert.
(c) Cremation.
(d) Burial at sea.

12. How is M. Othon's predicament solved?
(a) The mislaid paperwork is found.
(b) Rieux intervenes and sorts things out.
(c) Rambert threatens to write a news article about it.
(d) The Prefect intervenes and sorts things out.

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

14. Why does Tarrou go home with Cottard?
(a) He is invited for dinner.
(b) Cottard has a present for him.
(c) Cottard insists.
(d) Cottard is unwell.

15. What is Rieux's reaction to Rambert's plans?
(a) He is encouraging.
(b) He advises against the plans.
(c) He threeatens he will tell the authorities.
(d) He has mixed emotions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What criticism is made of Fr Paneloux after the sermon?

2. Having made his decision, what must Rambert now give up?

3. What error does Rieux think he has made?

4. Where is M. Othon quarantined?

5. Why do workers take on the risky business of burying plague victims?

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