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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is injured at the stock-car races at the stadium in Northolt and taken to the hospital?
(a) Ballard.
(b) Seagrave.
(c) Vaughan.
(d) Helen.

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

3. Ballard notes that most of the celebrities listed for imaginary crashes in Vaughan's questionnaire are what?
(a) Women.
(b) Alive.
(c) Men.
(d) Dead.

4. 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) Vaughan.
(c) An extra.
(d) A stranger.

5. Why is Ballard skeptical about Helen working for the Road Research Laboratory?
(a) Because he thinks its too close to the accident that killed her husband.
(b) Because he thinks she could get a better job as a doctor.
(c) Because he thinks that she is not qualified to work there.
(d) Because he thinks the work at the laboratory is ineffective.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ballard, each of Gabrielle's body was a "ripening anthology of ______possibilities."

2. What kind of commercial did Ballard prepare that he hoped to use a well-known actress for?

3. Ballard states that in the last weeks with Vaughan, the women Vaughan brought to the car each night began to resemble who more closely?

4. What word does Ballard repeat several times in his description of the car crash at the beginning of the book?

5. What kind of dog did Ballard hit two years earlier when he notices the same deformation on Vaughan's car?

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