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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Part 2, Chapters 32-38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What newspaper does Andrew work for?
(a) The Daily Planet.
(b) The Chronicle.
(c) The Daily News.
(d) The Daily Times.

2. 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) John Henry Anderson.
(d) Ching Ling Foo.

3. What was Angier doing when Borden first saw him performing?
(a) Performing the New Transported Man.
(b) Leading a seance.
(c) Performing In a Flash.
(d) Card tricks.

4. At what age did Borden begin performing alone on stage?
(a) 20.
(b) 25.
(c) 30.
(d) 18.

5. When Borden is backstage at Angier's show in Section 5, Part 2, what does he find beneath the stage?
(a) A large class case filled with an unknown substance.
(b) A loaded gun.
(c) A very large converter.
(d) A dead body.

Short Answer Questions

1. What physical trait did the Chinese magician fake his entire life, so as not to give his trick away?

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. Who did the head of the traveling magic show in 1972 write Alfred a letter of introduction to?

4. What does Olive confess to Borden that she originally came to him for?

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

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