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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. What does Dr. Rieux urge the committee to do?
(a) Start public health measures as if the disease is plague.
(b) Avoid panicking the citizens.
(c) Get rid of all rats.
(d) Inoculate the Prefect with anti-plague serum.

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

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

4. Why is use of the telephone severely restricted?
(a) Because there is only one line available.
(b) Because doctors need the phone lines open.
(c) It is too expensive.
(d) The lines have been congested.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What important meeting takes place?

2. What is the problem regarding the city gates?

3. What is the town's response to the Week of Prayer?

4. What becomes the last resort for disposal of corpses?

5. How does Rieux find out about his wife's condition?

(see the answer key)

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