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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Ballard states that Vaughan was only interesting to Ballard in relation to what?
(a) His camera.
(b) His car.
(c) His intellect.
(d) His fame.

3. How does Vaughan position himself and Catherine in the backseat while Ballard watches them have sex?
(a) In the same posture as Vaughan and the prostitute.
(b) In the same posture as Elizabeth Taylor and her husband.
(c) In the same posture as Ballard and Helen.
(d) In the same posture as the diplomat and young woman.

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

5. At the studio, who does Ballard see dressed up to resemble a famous screen actress, wearing a fawn suede coat, brassiere, and makeup?
(a) Vaughan.
(b) A stranger.
(c) Seagrave.
(d) An extra.

6. Whose death does Ballard begin to think about in a "more calculated way" than the one Vaughan designed for a famous film actress?
(a) His.
(b) Helen's.
(c) Catherine's.
(d) Vaughan's.

7. Who does Vaughan tell Ballard that Seagrave may follow after disappearing in a wig and leopard-skin coat?
(a) Catherine.
(b) Vaughan.
(c) Ballard.
(d) Helen.

8. 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?
(a) Because he wanted something else to occur.
(b) Because it did occur.
(c) Because it didn't occur.
(d) Because he no longer wanted it to occur.

9. According to Ballard, who "resembled rows of the dead looking down at us from the galleries of a columbarium"?
(a) The crashed cars at the impound.
(b) The headstones at the funeral home.
(c) The passengers in an airline coach.
(d) The prostitutes on the pedestrian bridge.

10. According to Vaughan, who has never been in a major crash so "everything lies in the future for her?"
(a) Renata.
(b) Elizabeth Taylor.
(c) Catherine.
(d) Vera Seagrave

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

12. 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 BMW.
(b) A Toyota.
(c) A Volkswagon.
(d) A Mercedes.

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

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

15. Why do the police signal to Vaughan when Ballard and Vaughan leave Ballard's studio?
(a) Because they want to question him regarding a pedestrian he ran over.
(b) Because they want to question him regarding his stalking Elizabeth Taylor.
(c) Because they want to question him regarding a stolen vehicle.
(d) Because they want to question him regarding an outstanding warrant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose body does Ballard visualize injured in a series of accidents at various stages of her life?

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

3. According to Vaughan, why is it important for him to have Elizabeth Taylor fill out his questionnaire?

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

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

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