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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. What action has Dr. Rieux already taken?
(a) He has ordered supplies of anti-plague serum.
(b) He has bought a train ticket out of town.
(c) He has started to manufacture anti-plague serum.
(d) He has organised mass poisonings of rats.

2. With what does Rieux contrast pictures of the plague through history?
(a) The tranquil and beautiful spring day.
(b) Cottard's predicament.
(c) A photograph of his wife.
(d) Pictures of Oran's parks and gardens.

3. What is the problem regarding the city gates?
(a) They were closed before the announcement was made.
(b) They cannot be closed.
(c) They were closed too late to make a difference.
(d) They are not high enough and people escape.

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

5. Why is use of the telephone severely restricted?
(a) Because doctors need the phone lines open.
(b) Because there is only one line available.
(c) It is too expensive.
(d) The lines have been congested.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what way are people allowed to communicate with those outside the city?

3. Why has the journalist Raymod Rambert come to Oran?

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

5. What is the Spaniard's medical condition?

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