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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 become much more severe.
(d) It has changed from pneumonic to bubonic.

2. Who receives an invitation to the sermon?
(a) The Prefect.
(b) M. Cottard.
(c) Dr. Rieux.
(d) Dr. Castel.

3. Who is the first victim of the plague?
(a) A railway porter.
(b) The concierge in Dr. Rieux's apartment building.
(c) M. Cottard.
(d) The Spaniard.

4. Who must Rieux take with him when he has to evacuate a plague victim?
(a) A nurse.
(b) Two other doctors.
(c) A judge and a second doctor.
(d) A police officer.

5. Who removes the dead rat from Dr Rieux's landing?
(a) M. Othon.
(b) Dr Rieux.
(c) Mrs Rieux.
(d) The concierge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What weather conditions set in after the sermon?

2. How has Rieux's work-load increased?

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

4. Why is use of the telephone severely restricted?

5. What is NOT a symptom of the plague?

(see the answer key)

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