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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the fatal car crash that nearly misses Elizabeth Taylor occur?
(a) By a park.
(b) Near a film studio.
(c) Next to a school.
(d) At an airport.

2. The walls of Vaughan's apartment are covered with close-ups of whose body?
(a) Dr. Helen Remington's.
(b) Marilyn Monroe's.
(c) James Ballard's.
(d) Elizabeth Taylor's.

3. What premonitions does Ballard begin to have after being released from the hospital?
(a) The return to a pre-industrial age.
(b) The salvation of sinners everywhere.
(c) The second coming of Jesus.
(d) The end of the world by automobile.

4. Who does Ballard first take in a rental car to the scene of his accident that killed Helen's husband?
(a) Renata.
(b) No one.
(c) Helen.
(d) Catherine.

5. What is the person parked behind Ballard at the scene of the accident that killed Helen's husband doing?
(a) Taking pictures of him.
(b) Writing on a pad.
(c) Flashing his headlights.
(d) Talking on the phone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dies as the novel opens?

2. What injuries does Ballard sustain after the crash?

3. When Ballard is lifted onto the stretcher after the crash, how does he feel?

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

5. On their driving excursions to look for accident sites, what does Vaughan describe to Ballard?

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