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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 is the person parked behind Ballard at the scene of the accident that killed Helen's husband doing?
(a) Writing on a pad.
(b) Talking on the phone.
(c) Taking pictures of him.
(d) Flashing his headlights.

2. What premonitions does Ballard begin to have after being released from the hospital?
(a) The end of the world by automobile.
(b) The salvation of sinners everywhere.
(c) The second coming of Jesus.
(d) The return to a pre-industrial age.

3. Who did Vaughan collide with two months earlier when he lurched from a concealed access road?
(a) Two air hostesses.
(b) A filmmaker.
(c) Two mechanics.
(d) A stunt driver.

4. What is the name of the park where Ballard and Catherine's apartment is located?
(a) Dresden.
(b) Drake.
(c) Drayton.
(d) Drummond.

5. What happens to Ballard three days after his surgery in the hospital?
(a) He has an allergic reaction.
(b) He gets a minor infection.
(c) He has a spiritual conversion.
(d) He meets his wife's lover.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ballard first sees Helen at the hospital, what is the scarred man wearing under his lab coat?

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

3. In the hospital, what contained the "hundred histories of collision and bereavement" according to Ballard?

4. As Ballard drives home with Catherine after being released from the hospital, how does the image of a car change for him after his accident?

5. What did Vaughan rehearse for in the days before his death?

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