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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many cars collide at the junction of the eastern descent ramp of the flyover?
(a) Three cars collide.
(b) Seven cars collide.
(c) Nine cars collide.
(d) Five cars collide.

2. What does Helen do when Ballard first addresses her in the hospital?
(a) She ignores him.
(b) She laughs at him.
(c) She hits him.
(d) She screams at him.

3. Who does Ballard witness an argument between in the woman's ward of the hospital?
(a) A sister in charge and a nurse.
(b) A patient and her sister.
(c) A doctor and a nurse.
(d) A sister in charge and doctor.

4. According to Ballard, Vaughan's relations with women were all governed by what?
(a) "Violent fantasies."
(b) "Obsessive games."
(c) "Sexist ideas."
(d) "Repressed desires."

5. What is the effect on Ballard of Vaughan following him in his car?
(a) Ballard thinks he will have a nervous breakdown.
(b) Ballard thinks he will turn Vaughan in.
(c) Ballard thinks he will kill Vaughan.
(d) Ballard thinks he will be involved in a second accident.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What kind of business has Catherine started up with one of her boyfriends?

4. According to Ballard at the end of Chapter 2, the radiator grills of their cars resembled what?

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

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