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

2. In what era is the story set?
(a) 1940s during World War II.
(b) 1940s, shortly after World War II.
(c) During the French Revolution.
(d) 1916, during World War I.

3. What sight disturbs Rieux as he drives home?
(a) A woman throwing dead rats in litter bins.
(b) A woman carrying a dead rat that is bleeding horribly.
(c) People attacking a screaming woman who is covered in blood.
(d) A woman screaming in agony and dripping blood.

4. The narrator tells us that the city is:
(a) Boring.
(b) Modern.
(c) Needs better design.
(d) Exciting and vibrant.

5. Why don't all sufferers have hospital treatment?
(a) They have no transport.
(b) Dr Rieux has quarantined them.
(c) They die before they can get to hospital.
(d) There are not enough beds at the hospital.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who preaches the closing sermon at High Mass?

3. With what does Rieux contrast pictures of the plague through history?

4. How does Rieux treat the plague victims?

5. What is one result of the sealed city?

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