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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Part 2, Chapters 12-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the only trick of Borden's that Angier did not attack?
(a) The New Transported Man.
(b) The Headless Magician.
(c) In a Flash.
(d) The Disappearing Magician.

2. Alfred writes that the more people are fooled, ___________________.
(a) The more they will smile.
(b) The more entertained they are.
(c) The more they want to find out.
(d) The more outraged they may become.

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

4. Who was known as Le Professeur de Magie?
(a) Alfred Borden.
(b) Arthur Koenig.
(c) Nikola Tesla.
(d) Rupert Angier.

5. What is the 'prestige' of a magic trick, according to Borden's journal?
(a) When the magician explains the trick to the audience.
(b) The level of difficulty.
(c) Where the product is revealed to the audience.
(d) Where the magician asks for a volunteer from the audience.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose name is on the book Andrew receives as a package?

2. What does the person who contacted Andrew's paper about the church say Andrew's name was when he was a little boy?

3. When Andrew finds out that the church did not contact him for the story, who did?

4. Who becomes the narrator in Section 2?

5. What does Alfred state his memoir is meant to be an autobiography of?

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