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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 dead drivers and passengers.
(c) The previous drivers and passengers.
(d) The would-be drivers and passengers.

2. What injuries does Ballard sustain after the crash?
(a) Broken elbows.
(b) Herniated disc.
(c) Punctured lungs.
(d) Fractured knee-caps.

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

4. When the young wife of the man killed in the crash with Ballard exits her car, what does she do?
(a) Urinates.
(b) Laughs.
(c) Screams.
(d) Vomits.

5. In the hospital, what contained the "hundred histories of collision and bereavement" according to Ballard?
(a) The full IV bags.
(b) The empty beds.
(c) The covered gurneys.
(d) The broken wheelchairs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of airline pilot removes the young wife from the crash with Ballard?

2. As Ballard is taken to the hospital after his crash, he recalls that "Vaughan collected the _____of ________nurses in his photographic albums."

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

4. What did Vaughan steal from Ballard ten days before Vaughan's death?

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

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