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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do people find out about the plague death rate?
(a) On television.
(b) Via radio broadcasts.
(c) By reading the newspapers.
(d) By word of mouth.

2. What has Dr. Castel achieved?
(a) He has brokered a deal with France to manufacture serum.
(b) He has inoculated more people than Dr. Rieux.
(c) He has isolated the plague bacillus for the first time.
(d) He has produced a serum suitable for local conditions.

3. In what activity has Cottard become involved?
(a) Smuggling. (Profiteering from the plague.)
(b) Running guns to Mardeilles.
(c) Writing a novel.
(d) Volunteering to assist in the fight against the plague.

4. What does Dr. Rieux urge the committee to do?
(a) Avoid panicking the citizens.
(b) Start public health measures as if the disease is plague.
(c) Inoculate the Prefect with anti-plague serum.
(d) Get rid of all rats.

5. What important change in people's behavior does Tarrou record?
(a) That nobody laughs, except drunks.
(b) That everyone laughs, especially drunks.
(c) That they laugh at the plague.
(d) That they are more tolerant of drunks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rieux tell Rambert?

3. What is Rieux's attitude to religion and God?

4. Why are the townspeople not told the disease is plague?

5. Who is Jean Tarrou?

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