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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) Get rid of all rats.
(c) Avoid panicking the citizens.
(d) Inoculate the Prefect with anti-plague serum.

2. What important experience shaped Tarrou's view of capital punishment?
(a) Watching executions in Hungary.
(b) Watching executions in Burma.
(c) Reading about Nazi Germany.
(d) Watching murderers set free without punishment.

3. What does Grand reveal?
(a) That he is in disguise.
(b) That he wrote the sermon.
(c) That he has a secret girlfriend.
(d) That he is writing a novel.

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

5. With what does Rieux contrast pictures of the plague through history?
(a) A photograph of his wife.
(b) The tranquil and beautiful spring day.
(c) Cottard's predicament.
(d) Pictures of Oran's parks and gardens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the apparent result of this weather condition?

2. What action does the Prefect take?

3. The narrator tells us that the city is:

4. What is the result of this treatment?

5. What is Fr Paneloux's special area of expertise?

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