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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 does Tarrou reveal to Rambert about Rieux?
(a) That he is profiteering from the plague.
(b) That his wife is in a sanatorium in another city.
(c) That he has been unfaithful and his wife has left him.
(d) That his wife is being unfaithful and has left.

3. How do people express their feelings after the sermon?
(a) There are huge numbers of letters to the editor of the local paper.
(b) There is an open forum where people can debate the issues.
(c) People line up to volunteer to help their fellow citizens.
(d) There is violence and many people try to escape.

4. Why does Rieux ask Tarrou to do this?
(a) Because he is too busy to do it himself.
(b) Because he wants to write an article about it for the Medical Journal.
(c) Because he doesn't speak English.
(d) Because he has terrible handwriting.

5. Who must Rieux take with him when he has to evacuate a plague victim?
(a) A judge and a second doctor.
(b) A police officer.
(c) Two other doctors.
(d) A nurse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem has the Prefect to deal with, making his job harder?

2. In what city is the story set?

3. What sort of communication is forbidden?

4. To whom does Rieux disclose that the apris serum is not ideally effective?

5. Who is Jean Tarrou?

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