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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are newspaper reports optimistic?
(a) Because the authorities have given instructions to do that.
(b) Because the editors have given instructions to print happy stories.
(c) Because the reporters are unaware of the true situation.
(d) Because reporters have been threatened if they tell the truth.

2. What weather conditions set in after the sermon?
(a) There is snow.
(b) The weather is unchanged.
(c) There is a heatwave.
(d) There is a hurricane.

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

4. Why is M. Grand an interesting character?
(a) He leads an adventurous life.
(b) He has solved a great mystery.
(c) He has discovered something amazing hidden in the municipal archives.
(d) His life is not fulfilling, yet there is a mystery about him.

5. With what does Dr. Rieux treat this patient?
(a) Dr. Castel's serum.
(b) Penicillin.
(c) Mustard plasters and cupping.
(d) An ancient garlic compound.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one aspect of the plague that Dr Rieux considers?

3. Who is also in attendance when Cottard is questioned?

4. What causes panic in the town?

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

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