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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Vaughan rehearse for in the days before his death?
(a) A one-man show.
(b) His wedding.
(c) Ballard's murder.
(d) His own death.

2. According to Ballard, as he recuperates in the hospital, what does he state as the "only real experience" he had been through in years?
(a) His fantasies.
(b) His affair.
(c) His crash.
(d) His guilt.

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

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; emergency.
(b) Smiles; emergency.
(c) Grimaces; casualty.
(d) Smiles; casualty.

5. According to Ballard, what happens on the fourth day in the hospital "for no evident reason"?
(a) The IV fluids are taken.
(b) The doctors don't come.
(c) The nurses harrass him.
(d) The anesthetics are withdrawn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, according to Ballard, "read the answer to her unspoken questions in the scars on my legs and chest" in the hospital?

2. What kind of car does Catherine drive?

3. Who does Ballard first take in a rental car to the scene of his accident that killed Helen's husband?

4. 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.

5. Who dies as the novel opens?

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