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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. What is Rieux worried about?
(a) That the people will panic.
(b) That the trains will stop running.
(c) That the disease will affect his wife.
(d) That the disease will get out of hand and kill half the population.

2. What is one result of the sealed city?
(a) People are more likely to get plague.
(b) The Prefect has a feeling of great power.
(c) People are cut off from loved ones.
(d) People are more likely to recover from plague.

3. Who makes the order to close the town?
(a) The French President.
(b) Dr. Rieux.
(c) M. Othon.
(d) The Prefect.

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

5. Why has the journalist Raymod Rambert come to Oran?
(a) To investigate the welfare of Arabs in Oran.
(b) To investigate the plague of rats in Oran.
(c) To interview the polic magistrate.
(d) To research suicide deaths in Oran.

Short Answer Questions

1. This chapter focuses on which character in the novel?

2. How does the city government respond to looting?

3. What measures is the Prefect forced to take?

4. What is Tarrou's response to the ideas in the High Mass sermon?

5. How do his friends try to help Grand?

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