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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. Who passes away at the end of Section 14, Part 4?
(a) Julia.
(b) Olive.
(c) Koenig.
(d) Angier.

2. What do Angier and Telsa realize after two 'failures' that the machine is actually doing?
(a) Moving the original object.
(b) Changing the original object's color.
(c) Duplicating the original object.
(d) Nothing.

3. On whose behalf is Koenig trying to sell something to Angier in Section 14, Part 4?
(a) His own.
(b) Nikolas Tesla.
(c) Olive Westcombe.
(d) Alfred Borden.

4. After ten years of no entries, what does Angier describe in detail?
(a) His affair with his assistant.
(b) A new trick called The Great Disappearance.
(c) The performance Borden interrupted.
(d) The birth of his daughter.

5. During Angier's performance that the power went out in mid-illusion, what did Angier see happen to the faint image of himself that appeared int he lodge he was supposed to appear in?
(a) It fell backward and disappeared.
(b) It looked like it was on fire.
(c) It exploded in a cloud of smoke.
(d) It transformed into an image or Borden.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Angier describe his relationship with Olivia at the beginning of Section 10, Part 4?

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

3. What does Angier resolve to do as his final revenge on Borden?

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

5. What is a second reason the partial Angier decides to kill Borden?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Angier decide to kill Borden, and what ultimately happens?

2. Why does Angier travel to Colorado Springs?

3. What information does Arthur Koenig reveal to Angier in Section 12, Part 4?

4. What does Arthur Koenig bring to sell to Angier, and what does Angier think of it?

5. 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?

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

7. What does Angier plan to do for his final revenge on Borden?

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

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

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

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