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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Vaughan rehearse for in the days before his death?
(a) His own death.
(b) A one-man show.
(c) His wedding.
(d) Ballard's murder.

2. Where is the film studio Ballard works for located?
(a) Salisbury.
(b) Somerset.
(c) Swindon.
(d) Shepperton.

3. "Crash" is set in what city?
(a) Paris.
(b) Toronto.
(c) New York.
(d) London.

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

5. Who does Ballard witness an argument between in the woman's ward of the hospital?
(a) A sister in charge and doctor.
(b) A sister in charge and a nurse.
(c) A patient and her sister.
(d) A doctor and a nurse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Ballard skeptical about Helen working for the Road Research Laboratory?

2. Who witnessed Ballard inappropriately touch a flight attendant on an escalator and were on his flight to Orly?

3. According to Ballard, all who knew Vaughan accepted what about a car-crash?

4. When Ballard first sees Helen at the hospital, what is the scarred man wearing under his lab coat?

5. What injuries does Ballard sustain after the crash?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ballard regard his accident and why is it significant?

2. How is the man killed in the crash with Ballard symbolic?

3. What are Ballard's injuries from his crash with the man and his wife and how does he respond to them?

4. How does the wife of the man killed in the crash with Ballard react to the crash and why is it significant?

5. What does Ballard believe Helen's motives are for making love with him at the site of the accident and what is their sex act a metaphor for?

6. What is the chronology of the novel and why is it significant?

7. In the hospital, what does Ballard begin to do once he's mobile and how is it significant?

8. How does Dr. Helen Remington react to Ballard when he tries to speak to her in the hospital corridor?

9. Why does Ballard recognize Dr. Robert Vaughan when he sees him with the camera in the parking garage and why is it significant?

10. How do Ballard, Helen, and Vaughan react to Seagrave's accident at the stock-car races and why is it significant?

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