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

2. Who makes a rueful observance about the feast day?
(a) M. Cottard.
(b) M. Grand.
(c) Dr. Rieux.
(d) Dr. Rieux's mother.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who volunteers to help Rieux?

4. Where do notices about the disease appear?

5. How is food distributed to the people in the camp?

(see the answer key)

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