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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 is the focus in the questioning of Cottard?
(a) Cottard's suicide attempt.
(b) Dr Rieux's professional treatment.
(c) Cottard's wife.
(d) Tarrou's journal.

2. What is making things difficult for cinema owners?
(a) They have to charge lower admission fees.
(b) They can't get ushers because of the plague.
(c) They have no new films to show.
(d) They are only allowed to show newsreels.

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

4. What sight disturbs Rieux as he drives home?
(a) A woman carrying a dead rat that is bleeding horribly.
(b) A woman throwing dead rats in litter bins.
(c) People attacking a screaming woman who is covered in blood.
(d) A woman screaming in agony and dripping blood.

5. What does Tarrou reveal to Rambert about Rieux?
(a) That his wife is being unfaithful and has left.
(b) That he is profiteering from the plague.
(c) That his wife is in a sanatorium in another city.
(d) That he has been unfaithful and his wife has left him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which prominent citizen joins the volunteers?

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

3. What weather conditions set in after the sermon?

4. In what activity has Cottard become involved?

5. How has Rieux's work-load increased?

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