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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of equipment does Vaughan have in his apartment?
(a) Mechanical.
(b) Plastic.
(c) Building.
(d) Electronic.

2. What kind of dog did Ballard hit two years earlier when he notices the same deformation on Vaughan's car?
(a) A German Shepherd.
(b) An Irish Setter.
(c) An English Setter.
(d) An Italian Greyhound.

3. What does Vaughan hold in his hand that he claims can help recreate the Mansfield, Camus, and Kennedy crashes?
(a) Studio outtakes.
(b) Lab handouts.
(c) Hospital x-rays.
(d) Freeway designs.

4. Why does Ballard feel "no trace of pity" for Gabrielle after they make love?
(a) Because Gabrielle hated her crippled body.
(b) Because they celebrated her crippled body.
(c) Because they disregarded her crippled body.
(d) Because Gabrielle was responsible for her crippled body.

5. How many passengers get trapped in the limousine after the crash at the junction of the eastern descent ramp of the flyover?
(a) No passengers.
(b) Two passengers.
(c) One passenger.
(d) Six passengers.

6. What fantasies does Vaughan teach Ballard to visualize?
(a) Death and injuries Ballard always pitied.
(b) Death and injuries Ballard always feared.
(c) Death and injuries Ballard always desired.
(d) Death and injuries Ballard always despised.

7. After the simulated crash with the family of four and the motorcycle at the Road Research Laboratory, what does Vaughan tell Ballard he's always wanted to do?
(a) Learn to fly.
(b) Film a famous crash.
(c) Become a researcher.
(d) Drive a crashed car.

8. Ballard states that in the last weeks with Vaughan, the women Vaughan brought to the car each night began to resemble who more closely?
(a) Vera.
(b) Elizabeth Taylor.
(c) Raquel Welch.
(d) Gabrielle.

9. Ballard states that Vaughan was only interesting to Ballard in relation to what?
(a) His fame.
(b) His camera.
(c) His car.
(d) His intellect.

10. What is Ballard afraid the real reason for the police signaling Vaughan outside Ballard's studio is?
(a) To question Ballard about his erotic involvement with Vaughan.
(b) To question Ballard about a pedestrian he ran over.
(c) To question Ballard about a missing studio car.
(d) To question Ballard about a drunk driving arrest.

11. Who are the five film actresses Seagrave devised an "abattoir of sexual mutiliation" for Vaughan's questionnaire?
(a) Garbo, Jayne Mansfield, Elizabeth Taylor, Bardot, and Raquel Welch.
(b) Bette Davis, Jayne Mansfield, Elizabeth Taylor, Bardot, and Raquel Welch.
(c) Garbo, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Bardot, and Raquel Welch.
(d) Bette Davis, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Bardot, and Raquel Welch.

12. Who does Vaughan tell Ballard that Seagrave may follow after disappearing in a wig and leopard-skin coat?
(a) Helen.
(b) Ballard.
(c) Vaughan.
(d) Catherine.

13. After his accident, who does Catherine urge Ballard to see so much so that he feels that there were "lesbian overtones" to her request?
(a) Renata.
(b) Gabrielle.
(c) Helen.
(d) Vera.

14. What kind of injuries from car crashes is Vaughan most preoccupied, according to Ballard?
(a) Genital wounds.
(b) Facial wounds.
(c) Abdominal wounds.
(d) Spinal wounds.

15. How old are the "sharp-faced airport whores" Vaughan is arguing with when Ballard comes out of the bar?
(a) "Barely older than schoolchildren."
(b) "As old as Queen and country."
(c) "As old as Queen Mum."
(d) "Barely older than School marms."

Short Answer Questions

1. When Catherine asks Ballard where his car is after the police leave the studio parking lot, what does he tell her?

2. At the Road Research Laboratory, when does Ballard feel his sense of disembodiment and unreality increase?

3. Besides reefer stubs, what else is in the overloaded ashtray in Vaughan's car?

4. Since their visit to the Road Research Laboratory, Vaughan goes to the studios to see Seagrave, but Ballard thinks the real motive is what?

5. Ballard notes that most of the celebrities listed for imaginary crashes in Vaughan's questionnaire are what?

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