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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 happens to Ballard three days after his surgery in the hospital?
(a) He has a spiritual conversion.
(b) He has an allergic reaction.
(c) He gets a minor infection.
(d) He meets his wife's lover.

2. In Ballard's last days with Vaughan, they no longer drive the motorway searching for accidents, but do what instead?
(a) Drink in a bar near Vaughan's apartment.
(b) Sit in a parking lot behind Ballard' apartment.
(c) Walk in a park near the airport.
(d) Sleep in a motel behind the airport.

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

4. According to Ballard, each of Gabrielle's body was a "ripening anthology of ______possibilities."
(a) Passive.
(b) Practical.
(c) Potent.
(d) Perverse.

5. What topic does Ballard realize he never discussed with Helen?
(a) The accident.
(b) Her dead husband.
(c) His work.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ballard, Helen was about to enter a period of what after her bereavement?

2. Whose body does Ballard visualize injured in a series of accidents at various stages of her life?

3. Who witnessed Ballard inappropriately touch a flight attendant on an escalator and were on his flight to Orly?

4. On the Harlington clearway, besides the customized fiberglass sports car, and a chauffeur-driven government saloon, what other car is involved a crash?

5. What fantasies does Vaughan teach Ballard to visualize?

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