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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Helen tell Ballard about why she's at Northolt?
(a) She tells him she's looking for Vaughan.
(b) She tells him she's looking for her husband's car.
(c) She tells him she's filing charges against him.
(d) She tells him she's being interviewed by the police.

2. What kind of films did Ballard and Catherine see at the small art-cinema near their home?
(a) American avant-garde and German sex instruction.
(b) German sex instruction and American blockbusters.
(c) French avant-garde and American blockbusters.
(d) Amercian avant-garde and American blockbusters.

3. In the hospital, what contained the "hundred histories of collision and bereavement" according to Ballard?
(a) The broken wheelchairs.
(b) The empty beds.
(c) The full IV bags.
(d) The covered gurneys.

4. Where do the stunt drivers at the stock-car races in the stadium at Northolt work?
(a) At Road Research Laboratory.
(b) At the airport.
(c) At the hospital.
(d) At Shepperton Studios.

5. Who does Ballard take to the stock-car races in the stadium at Northolt?
(a) Helen.
(b) Renata.
(c) Vaughan.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ballard tells Catherine that she should have gone to the funeral for Helen's husband, how does she respond?

2. According to Ballard, "For Vaughan, the car-crash and his own ______ had made their final marriage."

3. Who tells Ballard that there is "a certain moral virtue in being materialistic"?

4. The firemen who cut Ballard's door from its hinges looked like what according to Ballard?

5. Where is the film studio Ballard works for located?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ballard regard his accident and why is it significant?

2. What is the point of view in "Crash"?

3. How does Dr. Robert Vaughan interrupt Ballard's rendezvous with the prostitute and why is it important?

4. Why is Dr. Robert Vaughan wanted by the police and how is it significant?

5. How does the wife of the man killed in the crash with Ballard react to the crash and why is it significant?

6. How does Ballard crash his car and why is it significant?

7. What does the prostitute Ballard hires share in common with his wife and his lover and what do they show about Ballard's character?

8. Who is with Dr. Helen Remington in the hospital and why is it significant?

9. What kind of pleasure did Vaughan derive from car crashes and how is it significant?

10. Where does Ballard take Renata after his release from the hospital and why?

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