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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Ballard see on his balcony when he is caught in a traffic jam?
(a) Seagrave.
(b) Renata.
(c) Vaughan.
(d) Catherine.

2. What does Ballard notice about the crowd that gathered at the junction of the eastern descent ramp of the flyover?
(a) There are few women.
(b) There are a lot of children.
(c) There are some teenagers.
(d) There are all men.

3. What fantasies does Vaughan teach Ballard to visualize?
(a) Death and injuries Ballard always pitied.
(b) Death and injuries Ballard always feared.
(c) Death and injuries Ballard always despised.
(d) Death and injuries Ballard always desired.

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

5. At the Road Research Laboratory, when does Ballard feel his sense of disembodiment and unreality increase?
(a) When the cars crash.
(b) When Vaughan appears.
(c) When the film plays.
(d) When the visitors arrive.

6. What is the name the researchers at the Road Research Laboratory give the mannequin on the motorcycle?
(a) Brando.
(b) Dean.
(c) Sinatra.
(d) Elvis.

7. On the Harlington clearway, besides the customized fiberglass sports car, and a chauffeur-driven government saloon, what other car is involved a crash?
(a) A Volkswagon.
(b) A Toyota.
(c) A Mercedes.
(d) A BMW.

8. When Catherine asks Ballard where his car is after the police leave the studio parking lot, what does he tell her?
(a) That it is at the garage because he crashed it.
(b) That Vaughan stole it.
(c) That it is at home because he didn't want to face the traffic.
(d) That Seagrave stole it.

9. What does Vaughan do as he drives past the crash at the junction of the eastern descent ramp of the flyover?
(a) Expose himself.
(b) Take pictures.
(c) Honk his horn.
(d) Cheer.

10. According to Ballard, aside from Vaughan's death, what is the crash that he most fears that becomes a reality on the Harlington clearway?
(a) His own.
(b) Catherine's.
(c) Seagrave's.
(d) Helen's.

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) Raquel Welch.
(b) Gabrielle.
(c) Vera.
(d) Elizabeth Taylor.

12. 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?
(a) The sun is shining.
(b) The streets are empty.
(c) It started raining.
(d) There are no planes on the runway.

13. What does Vaughan hold in his hand that he claims can help recreate the Mansfield, Camus, and Kennedy crashes?
(a) Hospital x-rays.
(b) Freeway designs.
(c) Lab handouts.
(d) Studio outtakes.

14. 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 Elizabeth Taylor will drive it.
(c) If Paul Newman will drive it.
(d) If Sean Connery will drive it.

15. According to Vaughan, why is it important for him to have Elizabeth Taylor fill out his questionnaire?
(a) Because none of the subjects named her in their fantasies.
(b) Because she is in all of the subjects fantasies.
(c) Because she has never been in a car crash.
(d) Because she has been in a car crash.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Vaughan tell Ballard that Seagrave may follow after disappearing in a wig and leopard-skin coat?

2. What do the junior pathologist, trainee radiologist, and service manager of a garage all have in common?

3. Who does Ballard describe as the "perfect forgery of an Ingres"?

4. Why does Ballard adjust the rear view mirror as he drives with Vaughan and the two airport prostitutes?

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

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