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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ballard, each of Gabrielle's body was a "ripening anthology of ______possibilities."
(a) Potent.
(b) Passive.
(c) Practical.
(d) Perverse.

2. 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 Sean Connery will drive it.
(b) If Julie Andrews will drive it.
(c) If Paul Newman will drive it.
(d) If Elizabeth Taylor will drive it.

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

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

5. What does Vaughan ask Ballard to do when they got to Earls Court?
(a) To undress Gabrielle.
(b) To walk with Gabrielle.
(c) To wait for Gabrielle.
(d) To take pictures of Gabrielle.

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

7. In Ballard's last days with Vaughan, they no longer drive the motorway searching for accidents, but do what instead?
(a) Sleep in a motel behind the airport.
(b) Walk in a park near the airport.
(c) Drink in a bar near Vaughan's apartment.
(d) Sit in a parking lot behind Ballard' apartment.

8. 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) It started raining.
(c) There are no planes on the runway.
(d) The streets are empty.

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

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

11. Why does Helen insist that she and Ballard follow Vaughan and Seagrave to Seagrave's home?
(a) Because she doesn't trust Ballard's motives.
(b) Because Ballard doesn't trust Vaughan's motives.
(c) Because Ballard doesn't trust Helen's motives.
(d) Because she doesn't trust Vaughan's motives.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ballard feel "no trace of pity" for Gabrielle after they make love?

2. What does Vaughan pick up that has been left by the police at an accident sight?

3. According to Ballard, what left an "archipelago of pockmarks" across Vaughan's neck?

4. At the studio, who does Ballard see dressed up to resemble a famous screen actress, wearing a fawn suede coat, brassiere, and makeup?

5. According to Ballard, who wears her hair in a "simulated Afro wig"?

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