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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the crash, Ballard states that an "uneasy _____ carried me towards the hospital."
(a) Euphoria.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Fear.
(d) Calm.

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

3. Where is the film studio Ballard works for located?
(a) Salisbury.
(b) Shepperton.
(c) Swindon.
(d) Somerset.

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

5. The firemen who cut Ballard's door from its hinges looked like what according to Ballard?
(a) Assistants of a gored bullfighter.
(b) Athletes in a football game.
(c) Actors in a one-act play.
(d) Accomplices in a jewelry heist.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ballard, what would Ballard and Vaughan listen to on their way to accident sites?

2. Why did Ballard have his safety belt on when leaving his secretary, Renata, before the crash?

3. Where does the fatal car crash that nearly misses Elizabeth Taylor occur?

4. Who did Vaughan collide with two months earlier when he lurched from a concealed access road?

5. According to Ballard, the young wife of the man killed in the car crash stared at him with a look that resembled a ________in an Early Renaissance icon.

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