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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dr. Rieux think about the illness?
(a) He thinks it is tuberculosis.
(b) He thinks it is an unknown disease.
(c) He thinks it is plague.
(d) He thinks it is asthma.

2. How has Rieux's work-load increased?
(a) He now treats patients as well as administering a 500-bed plague hospital.
(b) He has to do research to produce plague serum, treat patients and administer a hospital.
(c) He has to treat plague vistims, experiment on rats and run a 500-bed plague hospital.
(d) He is now required to treat 100 patients per day.

3. How does Rieux treat the plague victims?
(a) He applies poultices to the abscesses and makes the people stay indoors.
(b) He can do nothing.
(c) He injects them with penicillin.
(d) He lances and drains the abscesses.

4. What important change in people's behavior does Tarrou record?
(a) That nobody laughs, except drunks.
(b) That everyone laughs, especially drunks.
(c) That they laugh at the plague.
(d) That they are more tolerant of drunks.

5. What strongly motivates Rambert's plan to escape.
(a) Fear he will lose his job.
(b) Fear of the plague.
(c) Love for a woman.
(d) Self-love and preservation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do people find out about the plague death rate?

2. Who questions Cottard?

3. In what way has Grand's marriage affected his future?

4. What important meeting takes place?

5. Why are people seeking pleasure?

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