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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. Why don't all sufferers have hospital treatment?
(a) Dr Rieux has quarantined them.
(b) There are not enough beds at the hospital.
(c) They die before they can get to hospital.
(d) They have no transport.

2. Why are newspaper reports optimistic?
(a) Because the authorities have given instructions to do that.
(b) Because the editors have given instructions to print happy stories.
(c) Because reporters have been threatened if they tell the truth.
(d) Because the reporters are unaware of the true situation.

3. What action does the Prefect take?
(a) He calls a meeting.
(b) He makes a speech on the radio.
(c) He makes the proclamation of plague.
(d) He leaves the city.

4. How is food distributed to the people in the camp?
(a) The food is sent in by the Red Cross and dropped from helicopters.
(b) The food is provided by relatives.
(c) By donkey.
(d) Via small electric trucks.

5. In what important way has the plague changed?
(a) It has changed from bubonic to harmonic.
(b) It has changed from bubonic to pneumonic.
(c) It has changed from pneumonic to bubonic.
(d) It has become much more severe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the problem with the shipment of serum?

3. Who makes the order to close the town?

4. Who makes a rueful observance about the feast day?

5. What is Rieux's attitude to religion and God?

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