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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What verdict is given at the coroner's inquest of Ballard's crash with Helen and her husband?
(a) Accidental death.
(b) Negligent driving.
(c) Homocide.
(d) Manslaughter.

2. When Ballard is lifted onto the stretcher after the crash, how does he feel?
(a) Guilty about causing a man to die.
(b) Isolated from the reality of the accident.
(c) Aroused at seeing the young wife.
(d) Relieved that he wasn't seriously injured.

3. Why would Vaughan arrange women in stylized positions in cars?
(a) To paint them.
(b) To photograph them.
(c) To write about them.
(d) To film them.

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

5. Who witnessed Ballard inappropriately touch a flight attendant on an escalator and were on his flight to Orly?
(a) A French businessman and his wife.
(b) A Dutch businessman and his wife.
(c) A British businessman and his wife.
(d) An American businessman and his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the park where Ballard and Catherine's apartment is located?

2. Who did Vaughan collide with two months earlier when he lurched from a concealed access road?

3. Why did Ballard have his safety belt on when leaving his secretary, Renata, before the crash?

4. Who, according to Ballard, "read the answer to her unspoken questions in the scars on my legs and chest" in the hospital?

5. According to Ballard, if the famous actress Vaughan obsessed over never died in a car-crash, what had Vaughan created instead?

(see the answer key)

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