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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 decison does Rambert make?
(a) To buy a new apartment with a view over the bay.
(b) To smuggle medicines into Oran.
(c) He decides to stay and help to fight the plague.
(d) To escape and return to his wife.

2. How many people have contracted the disease and recovered?
(a) None. All have died.
(b) Forty.
(c) Everone has recovered.
(d) One.

3. Who makes a rueful observance about the feast day?
(a) M. Grand.
(b) Dr. Rieux's mother.
(c) M. Cottard.
(d) Dr. Rieux.

4. How do the people of Oran react to the sermon at High Mass?
(a) It's a mixed reaction.
(b) People are very much in agreement.
(c) People reject it completely and become angry.
(d) It's an enthusiastic reaction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who must Rieux take with him when he has to evacuate a plague victim?

2. What is Tarrou's opinion of his fellow human beings?

3. What methods does the character use to attain the goal or goals?

4. In what way is the character similar emotionally to the townspeople?

5. What is the focus in the questioning of Cottard?

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