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

2. What Chinese magician did Alfred observe?
(a) Foo Lang Chin.
(b) Chang Lang Foo.
(c) Foo Ling Chang.
(d) Ching Ling Foo.

3. How does Andrew interpret the church when he first arrives?
(a) Too colorful.
(b) A forboding place.
(c) Too quiet.
(d) A safe place.

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

5. Who did the head of the traveling magic show in 1972 write Alfred a letter of introduction to?
(a) John Henry Anderson.
(b) Ching Ling Foo.
(c) Rupert Angier.
(d) Mr. Nevil Maskelyne.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

4. What part of his body does Alfred cut badly with a chisel when he is young?

5. How did Borden and Angier's feud begin?

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