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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. To whom does Rieux disclose that the apris serum is not ideally effective?
(a) Rambert.
(b) His mother.
(c) Grand.
(d) His wife.

2. Why are newspaper reports optimistic?
(a) Because reporters have been threatened if they tell the truth.
(b) Because the reporters are unaware of the true situation.
(c) Because the editors have given instructions to print happy stories.
(d) Because the authorities have given instructions to do that.

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

4. The plague is changing in two ways. What is the first way?
(a) The death rate becomes steady,
(b) The death rate climbs dramatically.
(c) People die only every second day.
(d) The death rate drops dramatically.

5. How is food distributed to the people in the camp?
(a) By donkey.
(b) The food is sent in by the Red Cross and dropped from helicopters.
(c) Via small electric trucks.
(d) The food is provided by relatives.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Tarrou's response to the ideas in the High Mass sermon?

3. Which is the second way?

4. What important information is given in the notices?

5. Where do notices about the disease appear?

(see the answer key)

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