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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section Twelve: Part Four (pages 278-308).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose traveling magic show did a young Alfred attend night after night in 1872, hoping to discover the secret to a trick?
(a) Mr. Nevil Maskelyne.
(b) Rupert Angier.
(c) Ching Ling Foo.
(d) John Henry Anderson.

2. Who is Arthur Koenig?
(a) A criminal who works with Angier.
(b) A doctor who sees Angier.
(c) Another rivaling magician.
(d) A reporter who meets with Angier.

3. How did Borden begin in the magic world?
(a) By making up his own tricks and performing for free in a local pub.
(b) By learning magic from a private tutor.
(c) By performing on a street corner and accepting people's spare change.
(d) By building cabinets for other magicians and assisting them on stage.

4. Angier vows to perform Borden's illusion even better than Borden within ___________ of his return from America.
(a) One week.
(b) One season.
(c) One month.
(d) One year.

5. During Angier's performance that the power went out in mid-illusion, what did Angier see happen to the faint image of himself that appeared int he lodge he was supposed to appear in?
(a) It transformed into an image or Borden.
(b) It looked like it was on fire.
(c) It fell backward and disappeared.
(d) It exploded in a cloud of smoke.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can the journal entries in Section 6, Part 3 be described?

2. How does Borden feel about Angier's death?

3. Who entertained Nicholas for hours?

4. What does Angier discover from personal research about Borden prior to Angier's American tour?

5. What is Julia Fensell and Angier's original relationship?

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