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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ballard, "For Vaughan, the car-crash and his own ______ had made their final marriage."
(a) Depression.
(b) Health.
(c) Faith.
(d) Sexuality.

2. 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.

3. 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) A French businessman and his wife.
(d) An American businessman and his wife.

4. Who is Francis Waring, according to Ballard?
(a) A doctor at the hospital.
(b) A minor film actress.
(c) Catherine's lover's wife.
(d) His partner's bored wife.

5. What kind of business has Catherine started up with one of her boyfriends?
(a) A cycle-tourist charter firm.
(b) An air-tourist charter firm.
(c) A walking-tourist charter firm.
(d) A bus-tourist charter firm.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What premonitions does Ballard begin to have after being released from the hospital?

3. In the hospital, what contained the "hundred histories of collision and bereavement" according to Ballard?

4. Who does Ballard take to the stock-car races in the stadium at Northolt?

5. In the parking lot outside the hospital, Ballard says that his hostility towards Vaughan gave way to what?

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