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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 does Rieux find out about his wife's condition?
(a) He sends a telegram.
(b) He calls the house physician.
(c) He writes to the sanatorium,
(d) He calls his wife.

2. Who is the first victim of the plague?
(a) M. Cottard.
(b) The Spaniard.
(c) A railway porter.
(d) The concierge in Dr. Rieux's apartment building.

3. What is the character's focus for action in this chapter?
(a) Public health.
(b) Communication with the outside world.
(c) A spouse
(d) A planned escape from Oran.

4. To whom does Rieux disclose that the apris serum is not ideally effective?
(a) His mother.
(b) Rambert.
(c) Grand.
(d) His wife.

5. In what predicament does Rambert find himself?
(a) He has missed out on a job as Editor of his paper.
(b) He is trapped in Oran away from his wife.
(c) He cannot file the news story.
(d) He is afraid to tell anyone he has a fever.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has Rieux's work-load increased?

2. What does Rieux ask Jean Tarrou to do for him?

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

4. What point is Camus making through this chapter?

5. What does Dr. Rieux fear?

(see the answer key)

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