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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 do all the cars Ballard drives remind him of?
(a) The current drivers and passengers.
(b) The previous drivers and passengers.
(c) The would-be drivers and passengers.
(d) The dead drivers and passengers.

2. Who did Vaughan collide with two months earlier when he lurched from a concealed access road?
(a) Two air hostesses.
(b) Two mechanics.
(c) A filmmaker.
(d) A stunt driver.

3. Who dies as the novel opens?
(a) James Ballard.
(b) Catherine Ballard.
(c) Dr. Robert Vaughan.
(d) Dr. Helen Remington.

4. Out of three "airport whores" Ballard comes across at a traffic island, which one does he pick up?
(a) The prettiest one.
(b) The youngest one.
(c) The eldest one.
(d) The nicest one.

5. In the parking lot outside the hospital, Ballard says that his hostility towards Vaughan gave way to what?
(a) Deference, even subservience.
(b) Admiration, even envy.
(c) Fear, even panic.
(d) Passion, even love.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ballard, what happens on the fourth day in the hospital "for no evident reason"?

2. What is Ballard's "ironic gesture" to provoke Catherine and Renate, who don't want him to drive?

3. Where do the stunt drivers at the stock-car races in the stadium at Northolt work?

4. According to Ballard, "For Vaughan, the car-crash and his own ______ had made their final marriage."

5. According to Ballard, why did Vaughan's former career come to an abrupt end?

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