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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Gerald Root attempts to _____________ Angier.
(a) Kill.
(b) Trick.
(c) Blackmail.
(d) Punch.

3. What does Julia inform the partial Angier of in Section 14, Part 4?
(a) She has cancer.
(b) Borden's death.
(c) She has remarried.
(d) Olive's death.

4. When is the partial Angier invisible?
(a) In dim lighting.
(b) In the direct sunlight.
(c) In bright lights.
(d) In the dark.

5. In the year that Angier resisted retaliating against Borden, what was the final incident Borden conducted that cause Angier to finally retaliate again?
(a) Borden started a whisper campaign against Angier.
(b) Borden stole Olivia away from Angier and hired her has his own assistant.
(c) Borden lowered an advertisement in the middle of Angier's Performance.
(d) Borden attended Angier's performance and loudly heckled him from the audience.

6. What is a second reason the partial Angier decides to kill Borden?
(a) To protect Julia from Borden.
(b) So Borden can never out-perform him again.
(c) He believes Borden will kill him otherwise.
(d) For stealing Olive.

7. What is the first condition Julia sets in order for her to return to Angier?
(a) He must apologize to Borden.
(b) He must return to being an illusionist.
(c) He must have another child with her.
(d) He must give up being an illusionist forever.

8. What do Angier and Julia agree was the reason their marriage initially failed?
(a) Magic.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Bordon.
(d) Depression.

9. Angier writes in Section 14, Part 4 that he continues to live in London as a resident who __________________.
(a) Does not contribute to society.
(b) Is more important that he used to be.
(c) Others do not like.
(d) Cannot be seen.

10. What happens after Olivia is hired by Bordon?
(a) She grows distant to Angier.
(b) She is miserable working with Bordon.
(c) Bordon discovers she is a spy and fires her.
(d) She decides to be a magician herself.

11. What is the first living subject Tesla's machine is tested on?
(a) A cat.
(b) A dog.
(c) Angier.
(d) A spider.

12. What does Angier say he almost did when Borden disrupted his act by cutting the electricity?
(a) Drowned.
(b) Broke his arm.
(c) Killed Borden.
(d) Got electrocuted.

13. What does Angier note in his journal about the 'recovery' from his new way to do In A Flash?
(a) The recover time is about 3 days.
(b) The mental recovery is quicker than the physical.
(c) The physical recovery is quicker than the mental recovery.
(d) The recovery time is about one week.

14. Angier vows to perform Borden's illusion even better than Borden within ___________ of his return from America.
(a) One week.
(b) One season.
(c) One year.
(d) One month.

15. Where does Angier travel to meet Nikola Tesla?
(a) Montana.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York.
(d) Colorado Springs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is different about the illusion In A Flash using Tesla's machine after a year?

2. Angier decides to never put Julia in danger again after her miscarriage, so what does he do?

3. After her miscarriage, Julia is __________.

4. After Julia miscarries, where does she spend most of her time?

5. What is significant about the location Angier is invited to perform for two weeks prior to his American tour?

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