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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 premonitions does Ballard begin to have after being released from the hospital?
(a) The salvation of sinners everywhere.
(b) The end of the world by automobile.
(c) The return to a pre-industrial age.
(d) The second coming of Jesus.

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

3. What does Ballard realize about his first meeting with Vaughan?
(a) That his motive for following him has something to do with revenge, but not blackmail.
(b) That his motive for following him has something to do with blackmail, but not revenge.
(c) That his motives for following him have everything to do with revenge and blackmail.
(d) That his motives for following him have nothing to do with revenge or blackmail.

4. What does Ballard note about the Lincoln Continental Vaughan drives?
(a) It is the same make as the one Elizabeth Taylor drives.
(b) It is the same make as Ballard's car.
(c) It is the same make of the one in which President Kennedy died.
(d) It is the same make as Catherine's car.

5. According to Ballard, what would Ballard and Vaughan listen to on their way to accident sites?
(a) BBC news.
(b) Music.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Police broadcasts.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Ballard waits for someone to reassure him after the crash, what does he imagine firemen doing with carbon dioxide sprays?

2. Why is Ballard skeptical about Helen working for the Road Research Laboratory?

3. What is the name of the place where Vaughan and Ballard watch vehicles crash into concrete blocks?

4. According to the narrator, with whom did Vaughan want to die in a collision?

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

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