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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Spaniard spend his days?
(a) Writing a novel.
(b) Reading.
(c) Counting dried peas.
(d) Counting rats.

2. What sort of communication is forbidden?
(a) Sending telegrams.
(b) Writing or receiving letters.
(c) Making audio tapes.
(d) Kissing and embracing in the street.

3. What does Dr. Rieux urge the committee to do?
(a) Inoculate the Prefect with anti-plague serum.
(b) Start public health measures as if the disease is plague.
(c) Get rid of all rats.
(d) Avoid panicking the citizens.

4. What human attitude concerns Rieux?
(a) Human prejudice and warmongering.
(b) Humans' inability to accept reality.
(c) Human infallibility.
(d) Humans' quick acceptance of reality.

5. What sight disturbs Rieux as he drives home?
(a) A woman throwing dead rats in litter bins.
(b) A woman screaming in agony and dripping blood.
(c) People attacking a screaming woman who is covered in blood.
(d) A woman carrying a dead rat that is bleeding horribly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Rieux called out to treat M. Cottard?

2. Why has the journalist Raymod Rambert come to Oran?

3. What interesting character enters the novel at this point?

4. Why is use of the telephone severely restricted?

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

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