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WorksheetsComprehension - The Prestige
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 24mins
What did Angier's wife suggest his magician stage-name should be?
(a)
What trick does Cutter ask them to try and work out so that in return, he'll get them stage-time with another popular entertainer?
The disappearing rabbit trick
The goldfish bowl trick
The sawing a lady in half trick
The sword-swallowing trick
The death of Angier's wife is caused by Borden using a different knot in the performance than usual. What is Angier's first act of revenge?
He but sabotages the bird-cage trick, killing the bird and breaking a volunteer's fingers.
He causes the suicide of Borden's wife.
He steals his "Transported Man" trick and uses it in his own act.
He tampers with the Bullet Catch trick, resulting in two of Borden's fingers being shot off.
Borden sets up his own magic show, the best trick being the Transported Man. What object passes between the two doors to show how quickly the trick is done?
A black top hat
A bullet
A yellow bird
A red rubber ball
Angier steals Borden's diary which is written in code and and found out something. Angier asks Cutter to accompany him to find this man, Tesla.
What is Cutter's response?
"Obsession is a young man's game."
I'm too old for this sort of adventure."
"It would feel like going home."
"Man's reach exceeds his grasp."
What is the name of Angier's doppelganger?
(a)
Angier travels to find Tesla, the engineer responsible for creating Borden's Transported Man
trick (or so he thinks). Where is Tesla's lab?
(a)
Tesla's machine is supposed to be a transporting portal. They have tested it on Angier's hat and finally, Alley's cat but neither thing disappears. When Angier leaves the lab, he finds a pile of top hats and a few black cats outside. What does Tesla say when Angier asks which hat is his?
"You are wearing your hat!"
"Finders keepers."
"None. They are all echoes of your hat."
"They are all your hat."
Just before he's hanged for Angier's murder, what does Borden say, when he is asked if he has any last words?
"Are you looking?"
"Hey presto!"
"Abracadabra."
"Goodbye, Jess."
What is revealed to be the answer to Borden's version of the Transported Man trick?
Mirrors
Cloning
A shuttle underneath the stage
A double coming out of the second door
During one show, Alfred tied Julia's wrist in a different way. This caused her to drown during her escape performance. Robert blamed Alfred for the mistake. What question did he ask Alfred during the funeral?
"Why did you kill her?"
"What knot did you tie?"
"How did that happen?"
"When did you see her?"
After Julia's death, Alfred and Robert began their careers independently as stage magicians. What was Alfred's stage name for his magic show?
(a)
Robert knew the secret of Alfred's trick and he put a real bullet into the gun and shot at Alfred. Fortunately, Fallon intervened in time to save Alfred. What injury did Alfred suffer from the shot?
A couple of missing fingers.
A punctured right lung.
A broken arm.
A toothache.
Alfred met his wife and her nephew in a parlor magic show. Alfred heard the boy asked his aunt "but where is his brother?" after watching the vanishing bird cage trick. This line was particularly important as it was a symbolic. To which theme in the movie?
Duality
Sacrifice
Obsession
Secrecy
After watching Alfred's The Transported Man trick, Robert could not help but keep wondering how Alfred did the trick. Cutter offered his explanation by saying that the only way Alfred could do the trick was by using a “ (a) ”
Robert and Cutter kidnapped Fallon in exchange for Alfred's code to decipher his diary. What was the five-letter code?
(a)
Alfred's wife committed suicide because she was tired of her husband's secrets as a magician. Before she hanged herself, she had a big fight with her husband. She asked him whether he loved her or not. What did Alfred reply?
"Yes, of course."
"No, not today."
"I don't know."
"A part of me does."
What knot did Alfred use when Julia died tragically in her magic performance?
(a)
Who is lord Caldlow?
(a)
What is the final act?
(a)
Who was the last person Sarah Borden spoke to before she committed suicide?
(a)
Never tell anyone your secret. They'll beg you for your secret, but as soon as you give it up, you'll be (a) to them.
According to Cutter, Angier's machine wasn't built by a magician. It was built by a (a) .
Who is Tesla's rival?
(a)
Did Alfred have an affair with Olivia?
Yes
No
What is Alfred's brother's real name?
(a)
Who is he?
(a)
Who is he?
(a)
Who is he?
(a)
Who is she?
(a)
