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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Helen do when Ballard first addresses her in the hospital?
(a) She laughs at him.
(b) She hits him.
(c) She screams at him.
(d) She ignores him.

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

3. The walls of Vaughan's apartment are covered with close-ups of whose body?
(a) James Ballard's.
(b) Elizabeth Taylor's.
(c) Marilyn Monroe's.
(d) Dr. Helen Remington's.

4. Who witnessed Ballard inappropriately touch a flight attendant on an escalator and were on his flight to Orly?
(a) A Dutch businessman and his wife.
(b) A British businessman and his wife.
(c) An American businessman and his wife.
(d) A French businessman and his wife.

5. Who does Ballard's wife Catherine tell him he looks like in the hospital?
(a) A gentleman in Harrod's.
(b) A victim in Madame Tussaud's.
(c) A murderer in an Agatha Christie mystery.
(d) A child out of Charles Dicken's.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ballard, as he recuperates in the hospital, what does he state as the "only real experience" he had been through in years?

2. When the young wife of the man killed in the crash with Ballard exits her car, what does she do?

3. What happens to Ballard three days after his surgery in the hospital?

4. What did Vaughan steal from Ballard ten days before Vaughan's death?

5. Who did the man killed in the car crash with Ballard work for?

(see the answer key)

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