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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Vaughan rehearse for in the days before his death?
(a) His own death.
(b) A one-man show.
(c) His wedding.
(d) Ballard's murder.

2. Why would Vaughan arrange women in stylized positions in cars?
(a) To paint them.
(b) To photograph them.
(c) To film them.
(d) To write about them.

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

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

5. According to Ballard at the end of Chapter 2, the radiator grills of their cars resembled what?
(a) A "perverse union."
(b) A "peaceful sleep."
(c) A "positive force."
(d) A "protective grimace."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the film studio Ballard works for located?

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

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

4. Who dies as the novel opens?

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

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