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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the studio, who does Ballard see dressed up to resemble a famous screen actress, wearing a fawn suede coat, brassiere, and makeup?
(a) Seagrave.
(b) A stranger.
(c) Vaughan.
(d) An extra.

2. Who does Ballard describe as the "perfect forgery of an Ingres"?
(a) Vaughan.
(b) Renata.
(c) Seagrave.
(d) Catherine.

3. According to Ballard, what left an "archipelago of pockmarks" across Vaughan's neck?
(a) Acne.
(b) Burns.
(c) Boils.
(d) Cysts.

4. What topic does Ballard realize he never discussed with Helen?
(a) The accident.
(b) His work.
(c) Her dead husband.
(d) His wife.

5. Who are the five film actresses Seagrave devised an "abattoir of sexual mutiliation" for Vaughan's questionnaire?
(a) Garbo, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Bardot, and Raquel Welch.
(b) Bette Davis, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Bardot, and Raquel Welch.
(c) Bette Davis, Jayne Mansfield, Elizabeth Taylor, Bardot, and Raquel Welch.
(d) Garbo, Jayne Mansfield, Elizabeth Taylor, Bardot, and Raquel Welch.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the Road Research Laboratory, when does Ballard feel his sense of disembodiment and unreality increase?

2. What is the name of Catherine's secretary whom she asks Ballard to visualize her having intercourse with?

3. At Northolt station, why does Helen ask Ballard to take her to the airport?

4. According to Ballard, the young wife of the man killed in the car crash stared at him with a look that resembled a ________in an Early Renaissance icon.

5. Ballard sees that next to the photos of various wounds from Vaughan's questionnaire, there are details of what?

(see the answer key)

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