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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ballard's "ironic gesture" to provoke Catherine and Renate, who don't want him to drive?
(a) Borrowing cars.
(b) Buying cars.
(c) Renting cars.
(d) Stealing cars.

2. What topic does Ballard realize he never discussed with Helen?
(a) The accident.
(b) Her dead husband.
(c) His work.
(d) His wife.

3. Who dies as the novel opens?
(a) James Ballard.
(b) Dr. Robert Vaughan.
(c) Dr. Helen Remington.
(d) Catherine Ballard.

4. According to Ballard, each of Gabrielle's body was a "ripening anthology of ______possibilities."
(a) Perverse.
(b) Passive.
(c) Potent.
(d) Practical.

5. What does Ballard realize about his first meeting with Vaughan?
(a) That his motives for following him have everything to do with revenge and blackmail.
(b) That his motive for following him has something to do with blackmail, but not revenge.
(c) That his motive for following him has something to do with revenge, but not blackmail.
(d) That his motives for following him have nothing to do with revenge or blackmail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of injuries from car crashes is Vaughan most preoccupied, according to Ballard?

2. How does Seagrave preempt the "real death" that Vaughan reserved for himself?

3. According to Ballard, why did Vaughan's former career come to an abrupt end?

4. What happens to Ballard three days after his surgery in the hospital?

5. As Ballard and Vaughan embrace during their last meeting, Ballard states that he wrestled with "this ugly golden creature, made beautiful by its ______and eyes."

(see the answer key)

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