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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Vaughan, Gabrielle, and Ballard visit at Earls Court?
(a) A studio.
(b) A motor show.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A research lab.

2. After leaving the hospital, what does Vaughan show Ballard at Seagrave's house?
(a) A film of car crashes.
(b) A museum of car parts.
(c) A laboratory of blood samples.
(d) An album of accident photos.

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

4. What kind of injuries from car crashes is Vaughan most preoccupied, according to Ballard?
(a) Facial wounds.
(b) Genital wounds.
(c) Spinal wounds.
(d) Abdominal wounds.

5. How does Seagrave preempt the "real death" that Vaughan reserved for himself?
(a) By driving Vaughan's Lincoln in Elizabeth Taylor's death.
(b) By driving Elizabeth Taylor's limo in his own death.
(c) By wearing Elizabeth Taylor's wig and costume in his own death.
(d) By wearing Vaughan's jacket and trousers in Elizabeth Taylor's death.

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

7. What is the name of the famous writer that Vaughan has an agency picture of for his questionnaire?
(a) Albert Camus.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Kurt Vonnegut.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

8. According to Ballard, who wears her hair in a "simulated Afro wig"?
(a) Vera.
(b) Renata.
(c) Helen.
(d) Catherine.

9. According to Ballard, Helen was about to enter a period of what after her bereavement?
(a) Bliss.
(b) Isolation.
(c) Promiscuity.
(d) Celibacy.

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

11. Ballard states that in the last weeks with Vaughan, the women Vaughan brought to the car each night began to resemble who more closely?
(a) Gabrielle.
(b) Elizabeth Taylor.
(c) Raquel Welch.
(d) Vera.

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

13. What does Vaughan pick up that has been left by the police at an accident sight?
(a) Flags.
(b) Tape.
(c) Chalk.
(d) Bags.

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

15. Why does Ballard adjust the rear view mirror as he drives with Vaughan and the two airport prostitutes?
(a) To see if Seagrave is following them.
(b) To see if Catherine is following them.
(c) To watch Vaughan and the girl have sex.
(d) To watch the two girls have sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides reefer stubs, what else is in the overloaded ashtray in Vaughan's car?

2. Who give Vaughan a set of passkeys so that he could take cars from the airport parking lots?

3. Ballard states that Vaughan was only interesting to Ballard in relation to what?

4. When Ballard drives home with Catherine and Vaughan in the backseat, what does he notice for the first time since his release from the hospital?

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

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