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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 significant about the location Angier is invited to perform for two weeks prior to his American tour?
(a) It is near where Borden attended school.
(b) It is near where Angier went to school.
(c) It is near where Angier grew up.
(d) It is near where Borden grew up.

2. What does Angier resolve to do as his final revenge on Borden?
(a) Publish the picture of Borden and his twin.
(b) Republish the newspaper article that will give away Borden's secret.
(c) Use the secret new illusion to upstage Borden one last time.
(d) Publish Borden's journal.

3. 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 stole Olivia away from Angier and hired her has his own assistant.
(b) Borden started a whisper campaign against Angier.
(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.

4. Olivia suggests she could apply to be Bordon's ___________ and discover his secret.
(a) Assistant.
(b) Stagehand.
(c) Ticket handler.
(d) Ingeneur.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julia inform the partial Angier of in Section 14, Part 4?

2. After Angier cancels the rest of his bookings because he is ill, what does he do with the apparatus?

3. What does Angier think the first time he sees Borden's New Transported Man illusion?

4. What is necessary for the partial Angier to be visible?

5. Where does Angier travel to meet Nikola Tesla?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Olivia end up leaving Angier?

2. After his prestige dies, what does Angier decide to do?

3. What does Angier hire Tesla to do?

4. After Angier finally admits to Telsa what he wants to use the machine for, what does Tesla succeed in making the machine do?

5. How does Angier manage to perform Borden's New Transporting Man illusion without knowing how Borden does it?

6. What event brings Angier home in Section 11, Part 4, and leads to him missing and contacting Julia?

7. How does performing In A Flash affect Angier when he first starts performing it using Tesla's machine?

8. What is the big twist at the end of Section 13, Part 4?

9. How does the audience react to Angier's first performance of In A Flash using Tesla's machine, and why was this now what he expected?

10. When the partial Angier returns to Julia and the prestige, what does he learn?

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