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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 the narrator, with whom did Vaughan want to die in a collision?
(a) Catherine Ballard.
(b) Elizabeth Taylor.
(c) James Ballard.
(d) Dr. Helen Remington.

2. Where is the film studio Ballard works for located?
(a) Shepperton.
(b) Swindon.
(c) Somerset.
(d) Salisbury.

3. Why did Ballard have his safety belt on when leaving his secretary, Renata, before the crash?
(a) To prevent being injured should he get into a car crash.
(b) To prevent him from the temptation of crashing into another car.
(c) To avoid her the embarrassment of having to embrace him.
(d) To avoid getting a ticket from the police.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Vaughan collide with two months earlier when he lurched from a concealed access road?

2. What does Helen do when Ballard first addresses her in the hospital?

3. Who does Ballard witness an argument between in the woman's ward of the hospital?

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?

5. What kind of business has Catherine started up with one of her boyfriends?

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