1. What happens one night that shakes the theater where Houdini had just performed?
(a) A German bomb attack on New York.
(b) A boiler blew up in the theater.
(c) An explosion at the Emerald Isle Fire House.
(d) A head-on train wreck.

2. What happens when Tateh is beaten by the police and the train The Girl is on starts to move?
(a) He grabs a gun from a militiaman and starts shooting.
(b) He runs and grabs onto the back guardrail of the train.
(c) He calls down a curse from heaven.
(d) He sits down and starts crying.

3. Seeing the man who has been following her, what does Evelyn think?
(a) That he is a fan who wants her autograph.
(b) That he is a deranged man stalking her.
(c) That he's a policeman assigned to protect her.
(d) That he's a detective hired by her mother-in-law to follow her.

4. What do the police discover as they go through the wreckage of the demolished building?
(a) The building exploded because of an earthquake.
(b) A fireman had thrown a cigarette into a gas can.
(c) Two of the victims had been shot; it was a case of murder.
(d) The fire started when a cook stove blew up.

5. When a reporter looks up Houdini to get his reaction to the escape, where is he found?
(a) In the theater.
(b) Escaping from a trunk in the East River.
(c) On his way to Europe.
(d) At his mother's grave.