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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is use of the telephone severely restricted?
(a) The lines have been congested.
(b) Because there is only one line available.
(c) It is too expensive.
(d) Because doctors need the phone lines open.

2. Why are the townspeople not told the disease is plague?
(a) The authorities fear a panic will result.
(b) Dr Rieux is panicking.
(c) Inspector Clouseau has arrived.
(d) The authorities are not sure that the disease is.

3. Who makes the order to close the town?
(a) The Prefect.
(b) Dr. Rieux.
(c) M. Othon.
(d) The French President.

4. What is the problem regarding the city gates?
(a) They were closed too late to make a difference.
(b) They are not high enough and people escape.
(c) They were closed before the announcement was made.
(d) They cannot be closed.

5. How has Rieux's work-load increased?
(a) He now treats patients as well as administering a 500-bed plague hospital.
(b) He is now required to treat 100 patients per day.
(c) He has to do research to produce plague serum, treat patients and administer a hospital.
(d) He has to treat plague vistims, experiment on rats and run a 500-bed plague hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Joseph Grand?

2. What is the Spaniard's medical condition?

3. What is the main message of the closing sermon at High Mass?

4. Where is this information to be found?

5. Who questions Cottard?

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