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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one aspect of the plague that Dr Rieux considers?
(a) Its cure.
(b) Its history.
(c) Its future.
(d) Its treatment.

2. What news does his mother give to Rieux?
(a) That the trains are running again.
(b) That Tarrou is sick.
(c) That she is sick.
(d) That she is leaving for Paris.

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

4. Why does Rieux ask Tarrou to do this?
(a) Because he doesn't speak English.
(b) Because he is too busy to do it himself.
(c) Because he wants to write an article about it for the Medical Journal.
(d) Because he has terrible handwriting.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Rambert's wife arriving?

2. Why does Rieux weep?

3. What does Rieux tell Rambert?

4. What creative problem does Grand have?

5. What is Rieux worried about?

(see the answer key)

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