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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Vaughan's scientific subject?
(a) Computer specialist in traffic systems.
(b) Biology specialist in human reproduction.
(c) Chemistry specialist in dark matter.
(d) Physics specialist in atom collision.

2. Who, according to Ballard, "read the answer to her unspoken questions in the scars on my legs and chest" in the hospital?
(a) His wife.
(b) His nurse.
(c) His mistress.
(d) His doctor.

3. What premonitions does Ballard begin to have after being released from the hospital?
(a) The salvation of sinners everywhere.
(b) The return to a pre-industrial age.
(c) The second coming of Jesus.
(d) The end of the world by automobile.

4. According to Ballard, Helen was about to enter a period of what after her bereavement?
(a) Celibacy.
(b) Isolation.
(c) Promiscuity.
(d) Bliss.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ballard, Vaughan's relations with women were all governed by what?

2. According to Ballard, what left an "archipelago of pockmarks" across Vaughan's neck?

3. What does Ballard notice about the crowd that gathered at the junction of the eastern descent ramp of the flyover?

4. Who are the five film actresses Seagrave devised an "abattoir of sexual mutiliation" for Vaughan's questionnaire?

5. What kind of airline pilot removes the young wife from the crash with Ballard?

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