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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. How does Rieux treat the plague victims?
(a) He lances and drains the abscesses.
(b) He can do nothing.
(c) He applies poultices to the abscesses and makes the people stay indoors.
(d) He injects them with penicillin.
2. Why do workers take on the risky business of burying plague victims?
(a) They get free uniforms.
(b) People are public-spirited and feel an obligation.
(c) The pay is high.
(d) They like the outdoors and exercise.
3. What decison does Rambert make?
(a) To buy a new apartment with a view over the bay.
(b) He decides to stay and help to fight the plague.
(c) To smuggle medicines into Oran.
(d) To escape and return to his wife.
4. How do his friends try to help Grand?
(a) They try to organise a promotion for him at work.
(b) They help him try to find a satisfactory opening sentence for his novel.
(c) They smuggle in paper for his novel-writing.
(d) They help him with his grocery shopping.
5. What is Tarrou's opinion of his fellow human beings?
(a) He believes they are more selfish than he is.
(b) He believes they lack courage.
(c) He beieves they are more good than bad.
(d) He believes they are more bad than good.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what predicament does Rambert find himself?
2. What is the problem regarding the city gates?
3. Why does Rieux ask Tarrou to do this?
4. What does Rieux confide?
5. Why are the townspeople not told the disease is plague?
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