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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who dies as the novel opens?
(a) Dr. Helen Remington.
(b) James Ballard.
(c) Dr. Robert Vaughan.
(d) Catherine Ballard.

2. As Ballard is taken to the hospital after his crash, he recalls that "Vaughan collected the _____of ________nurses in his photographic albums."
(a) Smiles; emergency.
(b) Grimaces; emergency.
(c) Smiles; casualty.
(d) Grimaces; casualty.

3. 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) Madonna.
(b) Angel.
(c) Child.
(d) Devil.

4. What does Helen do when Ballard first addresses her in the hospital?
(a) She screams at him.
(b) She laughs at him.
(c) She hits him.
(d) She ignores him.

5. According to Ballard, what would Ballard and Vaughan listen to on their way to accident sites?
(a) Nothing.
(b) BBC news.
(c) Music.
(d) Police broadcasts.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the park where Ballard and Catherine's apartment is located?

3. What did Vaughan steal from Ballard ten days before Vaughan's death?

4. As Ballard waits for someone to reassure him after the crash, what does he imagine firemen doing with carbon dioxide sprays?

5. According to Ballard, as he recuperates in the hospital, what does he state as the "only real experience" he had been through in years?

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