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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what important way has the plague changed?
(a) It has changed from pneumonic to bubonic.
(b) It has changed from bubonic to pneumonic.
(c) It has become much more severe.
(d) It has changed from bubonic to harmonic.

4. Why don't all sufferers have hospital treatment?
(a) They have no transport.
(b) They die before they can get to hospital.
(c) Dr Rieux has quarantined them.
(d) There are not enough beds at the hospital.

5. How does Rieux caution Tarrou?
(a) He tells him he is at risk and must have an inoculation.
(b) He tells him there is no risk if he has an inoculation.
(c) He tells him not to drink the water.
(d) He cautions him against having an inoculation because the serum is weak.

Short Answer Questions

1. What important Christian feast is ignored this year?

2. What is the problem with the shipment of serum?

3. Who makes a rueful observance about the feast day?

4. What important information is given in the notices?

5. Who makes the order to close the town?

(see the answer key)

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