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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. What is the main message of the closing sermon at High Mass?
(a) God has sent the plague to force people to repent.
(b) God no longer cares about humanity.
(c) God is love.
(d) People smoke and drink too much.

2. How does Rieux treat the plague victims?
(a) He can do nothing.
(b) He applies poultices to the abscesses and makes the people stay indoors.
(c) He injects them with penicillin.
(d) He lances and drains the abscesses.

3. What else does Dr Rieux muse about in relation to the plague?
(a) Its power.
(b) Its geography.
(c) Its use as a biological weapon.
(d) Its symptoms/manifestations.

4. What is M. Grand's job?
(a) He is a clerk at the hospital.
(b) He is a bank manager.
(c) He is Manager at the Municipal Office.
(d) He is a clerk in the Municipal Office.

5. What problem has the Prefect to deal with, making his job harder?
(a) People are pressurising him to sack Dr. Rieux.
(b) He has to deal with a rebellion and drunkenness.
(c) His wife is having an affair and he doesn't know with whom.
(d) People keep taking their frustrations out on him and ask him to bend the rules for them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jean Tarrou?

2. Who is the first victim of the plague?

3. In what city is the story set?

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

5. Why is use of the telephone severely restricted?

(see the answer key)

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