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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. By Section 10, Part 4 Angier has two life goals. What is his goal for his personal life?
2. Whose name does Olivia use when applying to work for Bordon?
3. What does Angier note in his journal about the 'recovery' from his new way to do In A Flash?
4. What appears to happen to the first object tested in Tesla's apparatus?
5. What does Julia inform the partial Angier of in Section 14, Part 4?
Short Essay Questions
1. After his prestige dies, what does Angier decide to do?
2. After Borden interferes with Angier's illusion by cutting the power, what does Angier note about his health?
3. What is the big twist at the end of Section 13, Part 4?
4. What does Arthur Koenig bring to sell to Angier, and what does Angier think of it?
5. Under which two conditions does Julia agree to come back to Angier and be his wife again?
6. 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?
7. What actions does Angier take in Section 4, Part 4 to secure his family's fortune and lifestyle?
8. What does Angier think of Harry Cutter's explanation for Borden's New Transported Man illusion?
9. How does Olivia Svenson enter Angier's life?
10. What does Angier hire Tesla to do?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The literary technique of 'conflict' is seen all throughout The Prestige. Describe three different types of conflict in The Prestige and how they affect the plot.
Essay Topic 2
Describe the three steps to every magic trick, as Borden shared at the beginning of the book, and explain how this is also a metaphor for the plot of The Prestige.
Essay Topic 3
Explain how Bordon's story of the Chinese magician Ching Ling Foo can be considered a metaphor for both Borden and Angier.
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