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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who witnessed Ballard inappropriately touch a flight attendant on an escalator and were on his flight to Orly?
(a) A British businessman and his wife.
(b) A Dutch businessman and his wife.
(c) An American businessman and his wife.
(d) A French businessman and his wife.

3. Who did Vaughan collide with two months earlier when he lurched from a concealed access road?
(a) Two mechanics.
(b) A stunt driver.
(c) A filmmaker.
(d) Two air hostesses.

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

5. What does Vaughan hold in his hand that he claims can help recreate the Mansfield, Camus, and Kennedy crashes?
(a) Lab handouts.
(b) Freeway designs.
(c) Hospital x-rays.
(d) Studio outtakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, with whom did Vaughan want to die in a collision?

2. Where do the stunt drivers at the stock-car races in the stadium at Northolt work?

3. What is the name of Ballard's wife?

4. What is Ballard's "ironic gesture" to provoke Catherine and Renate, who don't want him to drive?

5. According to Ballard, what happens on the fourth day in the hospital "for no evident reason"?

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