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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. Who makes the order to close the town?
(a) Dr. Rieux.
(b) M. Othon.
(c) The French President.
(d) The Prefect.

2. 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.

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

4. Which is the second way?
(a) Most people suffer now from bubonic plague.
(b) The plague is becoming more virulent.
(c) The disease is now more like ebola.
(d) More patients are suffering pneumonic rather than bubonic plague.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What important information is given in the notices?

2. How does Rieux caution Tarrou?

3. The plague is changing in two ways. What is the first way?

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

5. What is Rieux's attitude to religion and God?

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