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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 "intellectual stimulation."
(b) Its "logical torture."
(c) Its "perverse eroticism."
(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) Stoic.
(b) Static.
(c) Stylized.
(d) Strange.

3. Where does the fatal car crash that nearly misses Elizabeth Taylor occur?
(a) At an airport.
(b) Next to a school.
(c) By a park.
(d) Near a film studio.

4. According to Ballard, why does the young wife who is removed from her car after the crash resemble a "mentally defective girl" he once saw perform in a play?
(a) Because the young wife's crying sounds like the girl's singing.
(b) Because the young wife's legs look like the girl's pirouette.
(c) Because the young wife's wounds look like the girl's scars.
(d) Because the young wife's expression looks like the girl's face.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The walls of Vaughan's apartment are covered with close-ups of whose body?

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

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.

4. According to Ballard, what would Ballard and Vaughan listen to on their way to accident sites?

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

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