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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 think about the illness?
(a) He thinks it is tuberculosis.
(b) He thinks it is an unknown disease.
(c) He thinks it is plague.
(d) He thinks it is asthma.

2. In what country is the story set?
(a) Armenia.
(b) France.
(c) Nigeria.
(d) Algeria.

3. What human attitude concerns Rieux?
(a) Humans' inability to accept reality.
(b) Human infallibility.
(c) Human prejudice and warmongering.
(d) Humans' quick acceptance of reality.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jean Tarrou?

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

3. Who comes with Grand to see Dr Rieux?

4. What is the problem regarding the city gates?

5. What does Rieux ask Jean Tarrou to do for him?

(see the answer key)

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