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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Ballard three days after his surgery in the hospital?
(a) He gets a minor infection.
(b) He has a spiritual conversion.
(c) He has an allergic reaction.
(d) He meets his wife's lover.

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

3. At Northolt station, why does Helen ask Ballard to take her to the airport?
(a) Because she is taking a vacation to Spain.
(b) Because she likes to see the planes take off and land.
(c) Because she works in the immigration department.
(d) Because she is picking up a friend from America.

4. What does Ballard realize about his first meeting with Vaughan?
(a) That his motive for following him has something to do with blackmail, but not revenge.
(b) That his motives for following him have nothing to do with revenge or blackmail.
(c) That his motives for following him have everything to do with revenge and blackmail.
(d) That his motive for following him has something to do with revenge, but not blackmail.

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(a) The anesthetics are withdrawn.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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who, according to Ballard, "read the answer to her unspoken questions in the scars on my legs and chest" in the hospital?

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

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

5. According to Ballard, Vaughan's relations with women were all governed by what?

(see the answer key)

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