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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 magazines, posters and conema advertising.
(c) In cinema advertisements.
(d) In newspapers and on posters.

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

3. What important Christian feast is ignored this year?
(a) Christmas.
(b) All Souls' Day.
(c) Pentecost.
(d) The Feast of the Assumption.

4. What action does the Prefect take?
(a) He calls a meeting.
(b) He makes the proclamation of plague.
(c) He makes a speech on the radio.
(d) He leaves the city.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who volunteers to help Rieux?

4. Which is the second way?

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

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