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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ballard, who wears her hair in a "simulated Afro wig"?
(a) Catherine.
(b) Vera.
(c) Helen.
(d) Renata.

2. What fiberglass replica does Seagrave have in his show-room?
(a) A 1950's Austin.
(b) A 1960's Jaguar.
(c) A 1940's Hisso.
(d) A 1930's Brooklands.

3. As Ballard waits for someone to reassure him after the crash, what does he imagine firemen doing with carbon dioxide sprays?
(a) Spraying the spectators to punish them.
(b) Tracing obscene or humorous slogans.
(c) Enacting a grotesque simulation of violence.
(d) Coiling dead bodies on the ground.

4. As Ballard is taken to the hospital after his crash, he recalls that "Vaughan collected the _____of ________nurses in his photographic albums."
(a) Grimaces; casualty.
(b) Smiles; emergency.
(c) Grimaces; emergency.
(d) Smiles; casualty.

5. According to Ballard, who "resembled rows of the dead looking down at us from the galleries of a columbarium"?
(a) The crashed cars at the impound.
(b) The prostitutes on the pedestrian bridge.
(c) The headstones at the funeral home.
(d) The passengers in an airline coach.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Vaughan steal from Ballard ten days before Vaughan's death?

2. Why do the police signal to Vaughan when Ballard and Vaughan leave Ballard's studio?

3. Why would Vaughan arrange women in stylized positions in cars?

4. In the hospital, what contained the "hundred histories of collision and bereavement" according to Ballard?

5. Who does Ballard take to the stock-car races in the stadium at Northolt?

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