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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. According to Ballard, what happens on the fourth day in the hospital "for no evident reason"?
(a) The IV fluids are taken.
(b) The anesthetics are withdrawn.
(c) The doctors don't come.
(d) The nurses harrass him.

3. After the crash, Ballard states that an "uneasy _____ carried me towards the hospital."
(a) Sadness.
(b) Calm.
(c) Fear.
(d) Euphoria.

4. According to Ballard, as he recuperates in the hospital, what does he state as the "only real experience" he had been through in years?
(a) His crash.
(b) His affair.
(c) His guilt.
(d) His fantasies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ballard's wife Catherine tell him he looks like in the hospital?

2. According to Ballard, Catherine's driving becomes what after his release from the hospital?

3. What kind of films did Ballard and Catherine see at the small art-cinema near their home?

4. When Ballard tells Catherine that she should have gone to the funeral for Helen's husband, how does she respond?

5. Who dies as the novel opens?

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