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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the driver parked behind Ballard at the scene of the accident that killed Helen's husband?
(a) The doctor from Helen's room at the hospital.
(b) The doctor who performed his surgery.
(c) The firemen who pulled him out of his car.
(d) The nurse from his room at the hospital.

2. 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.

3. According to Ballard, all who knew Vaughan accepted what about a car-crash?
(a) Its "intellectual stimulation."
(b) Its "tragic flaw."
(c) Its "logical torture."
(d) Its "perverse eroticism."

4. What pictures is Ballard's passenger looking at when they arrive at the scene of his accident that killed Helen's husband?
(a) Pictures of famine victims.
(b) Pictures of naked women.
(c) Pictures of car crashes.
(d) Pictures of beauty products.

5. According to the narrator, with whom did Vaughan want to die in a collision?
(a) Dr. Helen Remington.
(b) Elizabeth Taylor.
(c) Catherine Ballard.
(d) James Ballard.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ballard at the end of Chapter 2, the radiator grills of their cars resembled what?

2. The walls of Vaughan's apartment are covered with close-ups of whose body?

3. What did Vaughan rehearse for in the days before his death?

4. What is the name of Ballard's wife?

5. According to Ballard, what happens on the fourth day in the hospital "for no evident reason"?

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