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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Tarrou reveal to Rambert about Rieux?
(a) That he has been unfaithful and his wife has left him.
(b) That he is profiteering from the plague.
(c) That his wife is being unfaithful and has left.
(d) That his wife is in a sanatorium in another city.

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

4. What weather conditions set in after the sermon?
(a) The weather is unchanged.
(b) There is snow.
(c) There is a hurricane.
(d) There is a heatwave.

5. Who is also in attendance when Cottard is questioned?
(a) Dr Rieux.
(b) Fr. Pertelote
(c) M. Grand.
(d) Inspector Clouseau.

Short Answer Questions

1. What important information is given in the notices?

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

3. The narrator tells us that the city is:

4. How does the Spaniard spend his days?

5. How are people coping as the plague continues?

(see the answer key)

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