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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do notices about the disease appear?
(a) In newspapers and on posters.
(b) By direct mail put through letter-boxes.
(c) In magazines, posters and conema advertising.
(d) In cinema advertisements.

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

3. What important information is given in the notices?
(a) Cases of fever are to be reported and a bounty has been placed on rats.
(b) Cases of vever are to be treated at home after they are reported, a black mark has to be painted on the door of a plague house and volunteers are needed for trial of a serum.
(c) Cases of fever are to be treated by Dr Rieux, the rats are to be exteminated and the water supply monitored.
(d) Cases of fever are to be reported, rats will be exterminated and the water supply monitored.

4. What is the problem with the shipment of serum?
(a) It is inadequate for needs.
(b) It has been accidentally destroyed in transit.
(c) It has been contaminated.
(d) It is the wrong sort.

5. To whom does Rieux disclose that the apris serum is not ideally effective?
(a) His mother.
(b) Rambert.
(c) Grand.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are newspaper reports optimistic?

2. The plague is changing in two ways. What is the first way?

3. How does Rieux caution Tarrou?

4. In what important way has the plague changed?

5. Who volunteers to help Rieux?

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