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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. Who makes a rueful observance about the feast day?
(a) Dr. Rieux's mother.
(b) M. Grand.
(c) M. Cottard.
(d) Dr. Rieux.

2. Who does Rieux confide in?
(a) Fr Paneloux
(b) Grand.
(c) Cottard.
(d) His mother.

3. When did Tarrou's mother die?
(a) When Tarrou was ten.
(b) Two years previously.
(c) When Tarrou was fifteen.
(d) Ten years previously.

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

5. What strongly motivates Rambert's plan to escape.
(a) Love for a woman.
(b) Self-love and preservation.
(c) Fear of the plague.
(d) Fear he will lose his job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rieux's opinion about the case?

2. Who is the worst affected emotionally when the patient dies?

3. What is Rieux's reaction to Rambert's plans?

4. What decison does Rambert make?

5. Which is the second way?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of M. Grand's struggle against the plague in Part 4 Chapter 7?

2. In what ways do Tarrou's plague symptoms first appear?

3. What is the effect of the child's death upon the other characters?

4. How are local printing firms and newspapers able to profit by people's fear of the plague?

5. What is the situation in the camps for people in quarantine?

6. Why is there a steady supply of workers taking care of burials?

7. Which characters now volunteer as plague workers?

8. Account for the difference tenor and content of Fr Paneloux's new sermon, compared with that he gave at the conclusion of the Week of Prayer.

9. How can we tell that Tarrou is a force for good in the town?

10. Explain the significance of The Plague's final paragraph.

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