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

2. When Angier contacts Tesla about his performance on electricity, what does Angier think of Tesla's response?
(a) He believes Tesla does not like him.
(b) He believes Tesla is lying to him.
(c) He believes Tesla is only telling him half of the truth.
(d) He does not understand Tesla's response.

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

4. How does Angier initially contact Julia when he returns to take over his father's estate?
(a) A phone call.
(b) A messenger.
(c) A letter.
(d) He shows up at her door.

5. Who is Harry Cutter?
(a) Angier's ingeniuer.
(b) Bordon's ingeniuer.
(c) Angier's assistant.
(d) Bordon's assistant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Angier discover from personal research about Borden prior to Angier's American tour?

2. Where does Angier travel to meet Nikola Tesla?

3. Before his tour to America, where is Angier invited to perform for two weeks?

4. What about the object Angier purchases from Koenig upsets Julia?

5. What does Angier do with the object Koenig tries to tell him in Section 14, Part 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. There are two Angiers by Section 14, Part 4. Describe the Angier narrating.

2. How does Olivia end up leaving Angier?

3. How does Angier react to Borden's illusion, the New Transported Man, the first time he witnesses it?

4. What does Angier think of Harry Cutter's explanation for Borden's New Transported Man illusion?

5. What does Angier hire Tesla to do?

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

7. Under which two conditions does Julia agree to come back to Angier and be his wife again?

8. 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?

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

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

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