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

2. What does Dr. Rieux urge the committee to do?
(a) Avoid panicking the citizens.
(b) Start public health measures as if the disease is plague.
(c) Get rid of all rats.
(d) Inoculate the Prefect with anti-plague serum.

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

4. What problem has the Prefect to deal with, making his job harder?
(a) His wife is having an affair and he doesn't know with whom.
(b) People keep taking their frustrations out on him and ask him to bend the rules for them.
(c) People are pressurising him to sack Dr. Rieux.
(d) He has to deal with a rebellion and drunkenness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What action has Dr. Rieux already taken?

2. Why are people seeking pleasure?

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

4. Who questions Cottard?

5. What does Dr. Rieux think about the illness?

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