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

2. How does the Spaniard spend his days?
(a) Counting dried peas.
(b) Writing a novel.
(c) Reading.
(d) Counting rats.

3. Who does Rieux confide in?
(a) Cottard.
(b) Fr Paneloux
(c) His mother.
(d) Grand.

4. What is NOT a symptom of the plague?
(a) Extreme thirst.
(b) Buboes.
(c) Fear of water (hydrophobia).
(d) Delerium.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What else does Dr Rieux muse about in relation to the plague?

2. Which prominent citizen joins the volunteers?

3. In what way are people allowed to communicate with those outside the city?

4. What does Rieux confide?

5. What does Dr. Rieux think about the illness?

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