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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 drives home with Catherine and Vaughan in the backseat, what does he notice for the first time since his release from the hospital?
(a) It started raining.
(b) The sun is shining.
(c) The streets are empty.
(d) There are no planes on the runway.

2. According to Ballard, what happens on the fourth day in the hospital "for no evident reason"?
(a) The IV fluids are taken.
(b) The nurses harrass him.
(c) The doctors don't come.
(d) The anesthetics are withdrawn.

3. According to Ballard, Helen was about to enter a period of what after her bereavement?
(a) Isolation.
(b) Bliss.
(c) Promiscuity.
(d) Celibacy.

4. According to Ballard, who "resembled rows of the dead looking down at us from the galleries of a columbarium"?
(a) The headstones at the funeral home.
(b) The crashed cars at the impound.
(c) The prostitutes on the pedestrian bridge.
(d) The passengers in an airline coach.

5. Who is Francis Waring, according to Ballard?
(a) A doctor at the hospital.
(b) His partner's bored wife.
(c) Catherine's lover's wife.
(d) A minor film actress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vaughan hold in his hand that he claims can help recreate the Mansfield, Camus, and Kennedy crashes?

2. Ballard states that Vaughan was only interesting to Ballard in relation to what?

3. What kind of commercial did Ballard prepare that he hoped to use a well-known actress for?

4. After the crash, Ballard states that an "uneasy _____ carried me towards the hospital."

5. Ballard sees that next to the photos of various wounds from Vaughan's questionnaire, there are details of what?

(see the answer key)

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