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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. How many passengers get trapped in the limousine after the crash at the junction of the eastern descent ramp of the flyover?
(a) Six passengers.
(b) Two passengers.
(c) One passenger.
(d) No passengers.

4. Who wears a back brace, steel clamps and has gas bacillus scars on her kneecaps?
(a) Catherine.
(b) Helen.
(c) Vera.
(d) Gabrielle.

5. According to Ballard, "It isn't sex that Vaughan is interested in, but _______."
(a) Technology.
(b) Violence.
(c) Life.
(d) Death.

6. Since their visit to the Road Research Laboratory, Vaughan goes to the studios to see Seagrave, but Ballard thinks the real motive is what?
(a) To force Ballard to leave Catherine for him.
(b) To steal cars for his own reenactments.
(c) To watch the car crashes for the film.
(d) To force an introduction with Elizabeth Taylor.

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

8. After his accident, who does Catherine urge Ballard to see so much so that he feels that there were "lesbian overtones" to her request?
(a) Vera.
(b) Helen.
(c) Gabrielle.
(d) Renata.

9. 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 Paul Newman will drive it.
(c) If Elizabeth Taylor will drive it.
(d) If Julie Andrews will drive it.

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

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

12. After the simulated crash with the family of four and the motorcycle at the Road Research Laboratory, what does Vaughan tell Ballard he's always wanted to do?
(a) Learn to fly.
(b) Drive a crashed car.
(c) Become a researcher.
(d) Film a famous crash.

13. 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.

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

15. Whose body does Ballard visualize injured in a series of accidents at various stages of her life?
(a) His sister.
(b) His daughter.
(c) His mother.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ballard see on his balcony when he is caught in a traffic jam?

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

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

4. According to Ballard, "Above all, the apartment was dominated by Vaughan's evident _____."

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

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