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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Ballard is lifted onto the stretcher after the crash, how does he feel?
(a) Relieved that he wasn't seriously injured.
(b) Guilty about causing a man to die.
(c) Isolated from the reality of the accident.
(d) Aroused at seeing the young wife.

2. What is the effect on Ballard of Vaughan following him in his car?
(a) Ballard thinks he will kill Vaughan.
(b) Ballard thinks he will have a nervous breakdown.
(c) Ballard thinks he will be involved in a second accident.
(d) Ballard thinks he will turn Vaughan in.

3. Who does Vaughan want Ballard to introduce him to?
(a) Paul Newman.
(b) Sean Connery.
(c) Elizabeth Taylor.
(d) Julie Andrews.

4. When the young wife of the man killed in the crash with Ballard exits her car, what does she do?
(a) Laughs.
(b) Screams.
(c) Vomits.
(d) Urinates.

5. Who did Vaughan collide with two months earlier when he lurched from a concealed access road?
(a) Two mechanics.
(b) Two air hostesses.
(c) A stunt driver.
(d) A filmmaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ballard realize about his first meeting with Vaughan?

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

3. Why is Ballard skeptical about Helen working for the Road Research Laboratory?

4. According to Ballard, as he recuperates in the hospital, what does he state as the "only real experience" he had been through in years?

5. According to Ballard, if the famous actress Vaughan obsessed over never died in a car-crash, what had Vaughan created instead?

(see the answer key)

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