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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 important meeting takes place?
(a) The Prefect meets with ratcatchers.
(b) The Prefect meets a committee of doctors.
(c) The Prefect meets a committee of concerned citizens.
(d) The Prefect meets Dr. Rieux's wife.

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

3. Who questions Cottard?
(a) Inspector Clouseau.
(b) A public health official.
(c) The police inspector.
(d) M. Tarrou.

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

5. In what way has Grand's marriage affected his future?
(a) He moved to Oran with his wife to escape her father.
(b) His became depressed because he found his wife boring.
(c) He finished college but could only get a boring job.
(d) He left college and took a boring job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Rieux urge the committee to do?

2. Who is also in attendance when Cottard is questioned?

3. What is Rieux worried about?

4. What is the apparent result of this weather condition?

5. In what activity has Cottard become involved?

(see the answer key)

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