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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 injects them with penicillin.
(b) He applies poultices to the abscesses and makes the people stay indoors.
(c) He can do nothing.
(d) He lances and drains the abscesses.

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

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

4. Why has the journalist Raymod Rambert come to Oran?
(a) To investigate the plague of rats in Oran.
(b) To investigate the welfare of Arabs in Oran.
(c) To research suicide deaths in Oran.
(d) To interview the polic magistrate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Rieux called out to treat M. Cottard?

2. What important meeting takes place?

3. What action has Dr. Rieux already taken?

4. In what predicament does Rambert find himself?

5. What interesting character enters the novel at this point?

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