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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 word does Ballard repeat several times in his description of the car crash at the beginning of the book?
(a) Strange.
(b) Stoic.
(c) Static.
(d) Stylized.

2. What did Vaughan steal from Ballard ten days before Vaughan's death?
(a) His wallet.
(b) His job.
(c) His wife.
(d) His car.

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

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

5. Who did the man killed in the car crash with Ballard work for?
(a) A German weapons producer.
(b) An Italian car manufacturer.
(c) An American food company.
(d) A British travel agency.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ballard at the end of Chapter 2, the radiator grills of their cars resembled what?

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

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

4. The firemen who cut Ballard's door from its hinges looked like what according to Ballard?

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

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