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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Ballard take to the stock-car races in the stadium at Northolt?
(a) Renata.
(b) Helen.
(c) His wife.
(d) Vaughan.

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

3. Who does Ballard call the "nightmare angel of expressways"?
(a) Elizabeth Taylor.
(b) Vaughan.
(c) Ballard.
(d) Helen Remington.

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

5. Who tells Ballard that there is "a certain moral virtue in being materialistic"?
(a) Robert Vaughan.
(b) Vera Seagrave.
(c) Helen Remington.
(d) Catherine Ballard.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ballard, what do the scars above his patella replicate?

2. Who is the driver parked behind Ballard at the scene of the accident that killed Helen's husband?

3. What is the person parked behind Ballard at the scene of the accident that killed Helen's husband doing?

4. What kind of films did Ballard and Catherine see at the small art-cinema near their home?

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

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