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

2. What important information is given in the notices?
(a) Cases of vever are to be treated at home after they are reported, a black mark has to be painted on the door of a plague house and volunteers are needed for trial of a serum.
(b) Cases of fever are to be reported, rats will be exterminated and the water supply monitored.
(c) Cases of fever are to be reported and a bounty has been placed on rats.
(d) Cases of fever are to be treated by Dr Rieux, the rats are to be exteminated and the water supply monitored.

3. What is Rieux worried about?
(a) That the disease will get out of hand and kill half the population.
(b) That the people will panic.
(c) That the trains will stop running.
(d) That the disease will affect his wife.

4. Who preaches the closing sermon at High Mass?
(a) Cardinal Richelieu.
(b) Fr Paneloux.
(c) The Bishop of Marseilles.
(d) A firebrand Dominican priest.

5. What is the Spaniard's medical condition?
(a) He has tuberculosis.
(b) He is bedridden with asthma.
(c) He has bubolic plague.
(d) He is bedridden with cancer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what way is the character similar emotionally to the townspeople?

3. What methods does the character use to attain the goal or goals?

4. What is M. Grand's job?

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

(see the answer key)

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