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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) Health.
(b) Depression.
(c) Faith.
(d) Sexuality.

2. As Ballard waits for someone to reassure him after the crash, what does he imagine firemen doing with carbon dioxide sprays?
(a) Tracing obscene or humorous slogans.
(b) Spraying the spectators to punish them.
(c) Enacting a grotesque simulation of violence.
(d) Coiling dead bodies on the ground.

3. When Ballard is lifted onto the stretcher after the crash, how does he feel?
(a) Relieved that he wasn't seriously injured.
(b) Isolated from the reality of the accident.
(c) Aroused at seeing the young wife.
(d) Guilty about causing a man to die.

4. According to the narrator, with whom did Vaughan want to die in a collision?
(a) Elizabeth Taylor.
(b) James Ballard.
(c) Catherine Ballard.
(d) Dr. Helen Remington.

5. According to Ballard, Catherine's driving becomes what after his release from the hospital?
(a) Fast.
(b) Slow.
(c) Worse.
(d) Better.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Ballard have his safety belt on when leaving his secretary, Renata, before the crash?

2. What did Vaughan rehearse for in the days before his death?

3. What does Ballard do for the week after being released from the hospital?

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

5. What pictures is Ballard's passenger looking at when they arrive at the scene of his accident that killed Helen's husband?

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