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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Ballard's wife Catherine tell him he looks like in the hospital?
(a) A gentleman in Harrod's.
(b) A child out of Charles Dicken's.
(c) A murderer in an Agatha Christie mystery.
(d) A victim in Madame Tussaud's.

2. Why is Ballard skeptical about Helen working for the Road Research Laboratory?
(a) Because he thinks she could get a better job as a doctor.
(b) Because he thinks that she is not qualified to work there.
(c) Because he thinks the work at the laboratory is ineffective.
(d) Because he thinks its too close to the accident that killed her husband.

3. Who does Ballard witness an argument between in the woman's ward of the hospital?
(a) A sister in charge and a nurse.
(b) A sister in charge and doctor.
(c) A doctor and a nurse.
(d) A patient and her sister.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why would Vaughan arrange women in stylized positions in cars?

2. What do all the cars Ballard drives remind him of?

3. According to the narrator, with whom did Vaughan want to die in a collision?

4. What did Vaughan steal from Ballard ten days before Vaughan's death?

5. What is the name the researchers at the Road Research Laboratory give the mannequin on the motorcycle?

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