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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the film studio Ballard works for located?
(a) Swindon.
(b) Salisbury.
(c) Shepperton.
(d) Somerset.

2. Why did Ballard have his safety belt on when leaving his secretary, Renata, before the crash?
(a) To prevent him from the temptation of crashing into another car.
(b) To avoid getting a ticket from the police.
(c) To prevent being injured should he get into a car crash.
(d) To avoid her the embarrassment of having to embrace him.

3. When the young wife of the man killed in the crash with Ballard exits her car, what does she do?
(a) Vomits.
(b) Urinates.
(c) Screams.
(d) Laughs.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As Ballard is taken to the hospital after his crash, he recalls that "Vaughan collected the _____of ________nurses in his photographic albums."

2. Who did the man killed in the car crash with Ballard work for?

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

4. Where does the fatal car crash that nearly misses Elizabeth Taylor occur?

5. According to Ballard, "For Vaughan, the car-crash and his own ______ had made their final marriage."

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