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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Renata meets Ballard in the parking lot of the studio, what does she ask him about the crushed Citroen Pallas saloon car?
(a) If Julie Andrews will drive it.
(b) If Paul Newman will drive it.
(c) If Sean Connery will drive it.
(d) If Elizabeth Taylor will drive it.

2. At the Road Research Laboratory, who does Helen stare at "almost as if they were patients whom she hoped to treat"?
(a) The visitors.
(b) The researchers.
(c) The mannequins.
(d) The stunt drivers.

3. What word does Ballard repeat several times in his description of the car crash at the beginning of the book?
(a) Strange.
(b) Stoic.
(c) Stylized.
(d) Static.

4. What do the subjects who completed Vaughan's questionnaire all have in common?
(a) They lost someone in a car crash.
(b) They have not been in car crash.
(c) They have been in a car crash.
(d) They witnessed a car crash.

5. Who is the driver parked behind Ballard at the scene of the accident that killed Helen's husband?
(a) The nurse from his room at the hospital.
(b) The doctor from Helen's room at the hospital.
(c) The firemen who pulled him out of his car.
(d) The doctor who performed his surgery.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Vaughan, who has never been in a major crash so "everything lies in the future for her?"

2. According to Ballard, Vaughan's fixation on the sex-death fantasy he created became more frustrated in his last days with him for what reason?

3. The firemen who cut Ballard's door from its hinges looked like what according to Ballard?

4. Out of three "airport whores" Ballard comes across at a traffic island, which one does he pick up?

5. According to Ballard, what would Ballard and Vaughan listen to on their way to accident sites?

(see the answer key)

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