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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ballard, all who knew Vaughan accepted what about a car-crash?
(a) Its "perverse eroticism."
(b) Its "logical torture."
(c) Its "intellectual stimulation."
(d) Its "tragic flaw."

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

3. Who dies as the novel opens?
(a) James Ballard.
(b) Dr. Robert Vaughan.
(c) Catherine Ballard.
(d) Dr. Helen Remington.

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

5. As Ballard is taken to the hospital after his crash, he recalls that "Vaughan collected the _____of ________nurses in his photographic albums."
(a) Smiles; casualty.
(b) Grimaces; casualty.
(c) Smiles; emergency.
(d) Grimaces; emergency.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When Ballard is lifted onto the stretcher after the crash, how does he feel?

4. As Ballard waits for someone to reassure him after the crash, what does he imagine firemen doing with carbon dioxide sprays?

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

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