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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Rieux weep?
(a) For the loss of his friend and for his own medical impotence.
(b) His mother is ill.
(c) He feels he has wasted his life.
(d) He misses his wife.

2. What has Dr. Castel achieved?
(a) He has inoculated more people than Dr. Rieux.
(b) He has brokered a deal with France to manufacture serum.
(c) He has produced a serum suitable for local conditions.
(d) He has isolated the plague bacillus for the first time.

3. How is food distributed to the people in the camp?
(a) The food is sent in by the Red Cross and dropped from helicopters.
(b) The food is provided by relatives.
(c) By donkey.
(d) Via small electric trucks.

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

5. What is the result of this treatment?
(a) The boy takes longer to die.
(b) There is no change in his condition.
(c) The boy recovers quickly.
(d) The formula is patented.

6. What criticism is made of Fr Paneloux after the sermon?
(a) That he has committed polysemy.
(b) That he has committed sacrilege.
(c) That he has committed simony.
(d) That he can't be heard at the back of the church.

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

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

9. How is Rambert's wife arriving?
(a) By air from Casablanca.
(b) By ship from Marseilles.
(c) By train.
(d) By car.

10. Which voice is now telling the story?
(a) Rieux's mother.
(b) Joseph Grand.
(c) The original narrator.
(d) Raymond Rambert.

11. With whom is Fr Paneloux billeted?
(a) Cardinal Richelieu.
(b) An old woman.
(c) M. Cottard.
(d) Dr. Rieux.

12. What is taking place in the town?
(a) Joyful celebration.
(b) Street races.
(c) Looting.
(d) People are visiting graves of plague victims.

13. Who receives an invitation to the sermon?
(a) M. Cottard.
(b) The Prefect.
(c) Dr. Rieux.
(d) Dr. Castel.

14. 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.

15. Which prominent citizen joins the volunteers?
(a) The Prefect.
(b) Cardinal Richelieu.
(c) Dr. Castel.
(d) Fr Paneloux.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dr. Castel's work?

2. Where is Grand taken for treatment?

3. With what does Dr. Rieux treat this patient?

4. When did Tarrou's mother die?

5. How does Rieux break with policy?

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