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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

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) Where the magician asks for a volunteer from the audience.
(d) When the magician explains the trick to the audience.

2. Who fed Kate's fears of something in her house when she was little?
(a) Her best friend.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her sister.

3. The Machine used for the New Transporting Man is designed to make the audience a bit __________.
(a) Frightened.
(b) Skeptical.
(c) Happy.
(d) Confused.

4. What is 'the set up' of a magic trick, according to Borden's journal?
(a) Where the audience suggests something to the magician.
(b) Where the magician asks for a volunteer from the audience.
(c) Where props are set up prior to the performance.
(d) Where the magician explains the trick to the audience.

5. Whose perspective is presented in Section 7, Part 4?
(a) Angier's.
(b) Borden.
(c) Lady Katherine's.
(d) Andrew's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the package from that Andrew receives at the beginning of the book?

2. The climax of the Chinese magician's show was producing a(n) _______________ from nowhere.

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

4. What was Angier's most famous magic trick called?

5. Who is the second woman Angier says he is in love with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lady Katherine say to Andrew that utterly stuns him? Why is he so surprised?

2. How does Borden and Olive's relationship change in Section 4, Part 2?

3. Describe Angier's most famous trick.

4. What object did the narrator of Section 6, Part 3 see that was new and frightening, and what happened in that object?

5. Who is Thomas Elborne?

6. How does Angier meet Julia Fensell, and how does their relationship progress?

7. What is Andrew's profession and where has it taken him as the novel opens?

8. How does the narration change in Section 2, and what does it focus on?

9. What is the story of the Chinese magician that Alfred shares?

10. What is odd about the package Andrew receives from his father?

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