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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What point is Camus making through this chapter?
(a) That plague is incurable.
(b) That isolation increases human misery.
(c) That human beings can cope quite well in isolation.
(d) That we should accept musery.

2. What important meeting takes place?
(a) The Prefect meets a committee of doctors.
(b) The Prefect meets a committee of concerned citizens.
(c) The Prefect meets Dr. Rieux's wife.
(d) The Prefect meets with ratcatchers.

3. Why are the townspeople not told the disease is plague?
(a) The authorities fear a panic will result.
(b) Inspector Clouseau has arrived.
(c) The authorities are not sure that the disease is.
(d) Dr Rieux is panicking.

4. 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.

5. How has Rieux's work-load increased?
(a) He has to treat plague vistims, experiment on rats and run a 500-bed plague hospital.
(b) He has to do research to produce plague serum, treat patients and administer a hospital.
(c) He now treats patients as well as administering a 500-bed plague hospital.
(d) He is now required to treat 100 patients per day.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who must Rieux take with him when he has to evacuate a plague victim?

2. What is the character's focus for action in this chapter?

3. Where is this information to be found?

4. What is the problem regarding the city gates?

5. What important information is given in the notices?

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