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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Ballard's last days with Vaughan, they no longer drive the motorway searching for accidents, but do what instead?
(a) Walk in a park near the airport.
(b) Drink in a bar near Vaughan's apartment.
(c) Sleep in a motel behind the airport.
(d) Sit in a parking lot behind Ballard' apartment.

3. When Ballard is lifted onto the stretcher after the crash, how does he feel?
(a) Aroused at seeing the young wife.
(b) Guilty about causing a man to die.
(c) Isolated from the reality of the accident.
(d) Relieved that he wasn't seriously injured.

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

5. According to Ballard, Helen was about to enter a period of what after her bereavement?
(a) Celibacy.
(b) Isolation.
(c) Promiscuity.
(d) Bliss.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of injuries from car crashes is Vaughan most preoccupied, according to Ballard?

2. Who does Ballard witness an argument between in the woman's ward of the hospital?

3. Whose death does Ballard begin to think about in a "more calculated way" than the one Vaughan designed for a famous film actress?

4. Ballard sees that next to the photos of various wounds from Vaughan's questionnaire, there are details of what?

5. In the parking lot outside the hospital, Ballard says that his hostility towards Vaughan gave way to what?

(see the answer key)

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