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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. How does the city government respond to looting?
(a) Martial law is imposed and shops are boarded up at night.
(b) Martial law and a curfew are imposed.
(c) All police leave is cancelled.
(d) Looters are shot on sight.

2. Which is the second way?
(a) More patients are suffering pneumonic rather than bubonic plague.
(b) Most people suffer now from bubonic plague.
(c) The plague is becoming more virulent.
(d) The disease is now more like ebola.

3. Who is the worst affected emotionally when the patient dies?
(a) Dr. Rieux.
(b) Fr Paneloux.
(c) M. Othon
(d) M. Tarrou

4. What point is Camus making through this chapter?
(a) That plague is incurable.
(b) That isolation increases human misery.
(c) That human beings can cope quite well in isolation.
(d) That we should accept musery.

5. Who volunteers to help Rieux?
(a) Cottard.
(b) Paneloux.
(c) Tarrou.
(d) Rambert.

Short Answer Questions

1. What important information is given in the notices?

2. In what city is the story set?

3. Why are newspaper reports optimistic?

4. How many people have contracted the disease and recovered?

5. What sight disturbs Rieux as he drives home?

(see the answer key)

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