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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. What is Julia Fensell and Angier's original relationship?
(a) They hate each other.
(b) They begin dating.
(c) They become best friends.
(d) They begin working together.

2. What building does Andrew travel to for his story as the book opens?
(a) Saint Mary's Catholic Church.
(b) Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints.
(c) Rapturous Church of Jesus Christ.
(d) Glorioos Church of Jesus Christ.

3. 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 performing on a street corner and accepting people's spare change.
(d) By building cabinets for other magicians and assisting them on stage.

4. How can the journal entries in Section 6, Part 3 be described?
(a) Short and unemotional.
(b) Short and emotional.
(c) Long and emotional.
(d) Long and unemotional.

5. What does Angier do when Tesla increases the price charge for creating the apparatus Angier wants?
(a) Angier gets angry and leaves.
(b) Angier agrees to pay it.
(c) Angier barders with a counter-offer.
(d) Angier laughs and refuses to pay any more than the original price.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the 'prestige' of a magic trick, according to Borden's journal?

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

3. Where does Angier travel to meet Nikola Tesla?

4. After the power was shut of in the middle of Angier's performance, how much weight did he lose in the following weeks?

5. What sort of discussion did the adults have in the story recalled in Section 6, Part 3?

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