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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Tarrou's father's occupation?
(a) He was a doctor.
(b) He was an undertaker.
(c) He was a concert pianist.
(d) He was a prosecuting attorney.

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

3. What is one result of the sealed city?
(a) People are more likely to get plague.
(b) People are cut off from loved ones.
(c) The Prefect has a feeling of great power.
(d) People are more likely to recover from plague.

4. How does Rieux treat the plague victims?
(a) He lances and drains the abscesses.
(b) He can do nothing.
(c) He applies poultices to the abscesses and makes the people stay indoors.
(d) He injects them with penicillin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes with Grand to see Dr Rieux?

2. What point is Camus making through this chapter?

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

4. What is at the core of Rambert's problem?

5. How is the city situated geographically?

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