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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does the Spaniard spend his days?
(a) Counting dried peas.
(b) Writing a novel.
(c) Reading.
(d) Counting rats.

4. What is one aspect of the plague that Dr Rieux considers?
(a) Its history.
(b) Its cure.
(c) Its treatment.
(d) Its future.

5. In what way are people allowed to communicate with those outside the city?
(a) Mobile phones.
(b) They are not allowed to communicate at all.
(c) Carrier pigeons.
(d) Telegram.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the problem regarding the city gates?

2. Why are the townspeople not told the disease is plague?

3. What human attitude concerns Rieux?

4. What is one result of the sealed city?

5. With what does Rieux contrast pictures of the plague through history?

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