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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the famous writer that Vaughan has an agency picture of for his questionnaire?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Kurt Vonnegut.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Albert Camus.

2. According to Ballard, what do the scars above his patella replicate?
(a) The knobs for the radio and emergency brakes.
(b) The keys for the ignition and the dashboard compartment.
(c) The handles for the air and rearview mirror.
(d) The switches for the windshield wipers and parking lights.

3. As Ballard drives home with Catherine after being released from the hospital, how does the image of a car change for him after his accident?
(a) It became an object of fear.
(b) It contained multiple identities.
(c) Its true nature had been exposed.
(d) Its purpose remained elusive.

4. According to Ballard, Catherine's driving becomes what after his release from the hospital?
(a) Slow.
(b) Fast.
(c) Worse.
(d) Better.

5. 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 naked women.
(b) Pictures of famine victims.
(c) Pictures of beauty products.
(d) Pictures of car crashes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the hospital, what contained the "hundred histories of collision and bereavement" according to Ballard?

2. When the young wife of the man killed in the crash with Ballard exits her car, what does she do?

3. According to Vaughan, who has never been in a major crash so "everything lies in the future for her?"

4. At the Road Research Laboratory, who does Helen stare at "almost as if they were patients whom she hoped to treat"?

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

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