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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ballard, why does the young wife who is removed from her car after the crash resemble a "mentally defective girl" he once saw perform in a play?
(a) Because the young wife's expression looks like the girl's face.
(b) Because the young wife's crying sounds like the girl's singing.
(c) Because the young wife's wounds look like the girl's scars.
(d) Because the young wife's legs look like the girl's pirouette.

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 nurse.
(b) His mistress.
(c) His wife.
(d) His doctor.

3. Who is Francis Waring, according to Ballard?
(a) A minor film actress.
(b) His partner's bored wife.
(c) Catherine's lover's wife.
(d) A doctor at the hospital.

4. What kind of films did Ballard and Catherine see at the small art-cinema near their home?
(a) Amercian avant-garde and American blockbusters.
(b) German sex instruction and American blockbusters.
(c) American avant-garde and German sex instruction.
(d) French avant-garde and American blockbusters.

5. The firemen who cut Ballard's door from its hinges looked like what according to Ballard?
(a) Assistants of a gored bullfighter.
(b) Actors in a one-act play.
(c) Athletes in a football game.
(d) Accomplices in a jewelry heist.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How many cars did Ballard miss before hitting the one that kills a man?

4. What is the name of Catherine's secretary whom she asks Ballard to visualize her having intercourse with?

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

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