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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. In what way are people allowed to communicate with those outside the city?
(a) Telegram.
(b) Carrier pigeons.
(c) Mobile phones.
(d) They are not allowed to communicate at all.

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

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

4. What action does the Prefect take?
(a) He makes the proclamation of plague.
(b) He calls a meeting.
(c) He makes a speech on the radio.
(d) He leaves the city.

5. What is Tarrou's response to the ideas in the High Mass sermon?
(a) He believes the ideas are sound.
(b) He does not think the ideas are worth discussing.
(c) He does not believe in collective punishment.
(d) He believes in collective punishment as truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the people of Oran react to the sermon at High Mass?

2. What does Grand reveal?

3. Why are the townspeople not told the disease is plague?

4. What important information is given in the notices?

5. What human attitude concerns Rieux?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the situation with plague serum?

2. Why is Cottard questioned by the police?

3. What is the popular mood as described in Part 2 Chapter 5?

4. Who is Raymond Rambert?

5. How do people react to Fr. Paneloux's sermon?

6. What does Fr. Paneloux tell the people in his sermon at High Mass?

7. What is one result of the sudden closing of the city gates?

8. Who is Jean Tarrou?

9. What is the problem about the announcements being made about the disease?

10. Who is Joseph Grand?

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