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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 do all the cars Ballard drives remind him of?
(a) The dead drivers and passengers.
(b) The previous drivers and passengers.
(c) The would-be drivers and passengers.
(d) The current drivers and passengers.

2. Who does Ballard take to the stock-car races in the stadium at Northolt?
(a) His wife.
(b) Vaughan.
(c) Helen.
(d) Renata.

3. 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) Smiles; casualty.
(d) Grimaces; emergency.

4. What pictures is Ballard's passenger looking at when they arrive at the scene of his accident that killed Helen's husband?
(a) Pictures of famine victims.
(b) Pictures of naked women.
(c) Pictures of beauty products.
(d) Pictures of car crashes.

5. According to Ballard, the young wife of the man killed in the car crash stared at him with a look that resembled a ________in an Early Renaissance icon.
(a) Angel.
(b) Devil.
(c) Child.
(d) Madonna.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Ballard describe as the "perfect forgery of an Ingres"?

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

4. What is Helen wearing when Ballard sees her in the yard at Northolt station?

5. When Ballard tells Catherine that she should have gone to the funeral for Helen's husband, how does she respond?

(see the answer key)

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