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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 kind of airline pilot removes the young wife from the crash with Ballard?
(a) Arab.
(b) Royal.
(c) Pacific.
(d) French.

2. According to Ballard, "For Vaughan, the car-crash and his own ______ had made their final marriage."
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Health.
(c) Faith.
(d) Depression.

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

4. According to the narrator, with whom did Vaughan want to die in a collision?
(a) James Ballard.
(b) Catherine Ballard.
(c) Elizabeth Taylor.
(d) Dr. Helen Remington.

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?
(a) His crash.
(b) His affair.
(c) His guilt.
(d) His fantasies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did Vaughan collide with two months earlier when he lurched from a concealed access road?

3. When Ballard is lifted onto the stretcher after the crash, how does he feel?

4. What is the person parked behind Ballard at the scene of the accident that killed Helen's husband doing?

5. When Ballard goes to the garage, what does he see on a rear window sill that reminds him of his own personal possessions scattered on the floor of his car after the crash?

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