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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way has Grand's marriage affected his future?
(a) He left college and took a boring job.
(b) He moved to Oran with his wife to escape her father.
(c) He finished college but could only get a boring job.
(d) His became depressed because he found his wife boring.

2. To what does Tarrou compare lawyers and judges?
(a) The plague.
(b) Gardeners.
(c) Saints.
(d) The elders of the Church.

3. In what activity has Cottard become involved?
(a) Volunteering to assist in the fight against the plague.
(b) Smuggling. (Profiteering from the plague.)
(c) Writing a novel.
(d) Running guns to Mardeilles.

4. What does Rieux confide?
(a) That his wife is getting much better.
(b) That he is in despair and contemplating suicide.
(c) That he has been profiteering from the plague.
(d) That his wife's condition has worsened.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is now possible for Rambert?

2. Who is the first victim of the plague?

3. Why has the journalist Raymod Rambert come to Oran?

4. Who is also in attendance when Cottard is questioned?

5. What important experience shaped Tarrou's view of capital punishment?

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