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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. What is the focus in the questioning of Cottard?
(a) Cottard's wife.
(b) Dr Rieux's professional treatment.
(c) Cottard's suicide attempt.
(d) Tarrou's journal.

4. Who is Jean Tarrou?
(a) A government official.
(b) A railway worker.
(c) A journalist.
(d) A man of independent means (comfortable income).

5. What human attitude concerns Rieux?
(a) Humans' inability to accept reality.
(b) Human prejudice and warmongering.
(c) Humans' quick acceptance of reality.
(d) Human infallibility.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who removes the dead rat from Dr Rieux's landing?

2. What is one result of the sealed city?

3. Where do notices about the disease appear?

4. What is Fr Paneloux's religious order?

5. Who questions Cottard?

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