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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what means do influential town leaders hope to resist the plague?
(a) Organising a Week of Sacrifice.
(b) Inoculating the population.
(c) Organising a Week of Prayer.
(d) Disinfecting the streets.

2. What action has Dr. Rieux already taken?
(a) He has organised mass poisonings of rats.
(b) He has started to manufacture anti-plague serum.
(c) He has ordered supplies of anti-plague serum.
(d) He has bought a train ticket out of town.

3. What does Dr. Rieux urge the committee to do?
(a) Inoculate the Prefect with anti-plague serum.
(b) Get rid of all rats.
(c) Start public health measures as if the disease is plague.
(d) Avoid panicking the citizens.

4. What is one aspect of the plague that Dr Rieux considers?
(a) Its treatment.
(b) Its history.
(c) Its future.
(d) Its cure.

5. What is the Spaniard's medical condition?
(a) He has bubolic plague.
(b) He is bedridden with cancer.
(c) He has tuberculosis.
(d) He is bedridden with asthma.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why don't all sufferers have hospital treatment?

2. What sort of communication is forbidden?

3. Why is use of the telephone severely restricted?

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

5. Why hasn't M. Grand been able to correct the mistake made about his promotion?

(see the answer key)

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