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That was Harry Houdini, a man who escaped handcuffs, straitjackets, and sealed milk cans as if locks were only suggestions. Born Erik Weisz in Budapest in 1874, he came to America as a poor immigrant and turned his own body into the most famous escape machine on Earth. Newspapers called him the Handcuff King, and audiences from New York to London packed theaters just to watch him wriggle free. Yet the most surprising trick of his life had nothing to do with chains at all.  \nThose chains made him rich, but a different kind of trickery made him furious. After his mother died, Houdini visited people called spirit mediums who claimed they could carry messages from the dead for a fee. He desperately wanted to believe, but instead he noticed the tricks: hidden helpers, tapping toes, and trumpets floated on thin wires in the dark. Because he was a magician, he recognized stage illusions dressed up as miracles, and it made him angry that grieving families were being robbed. So the King of Escapes became something new, a professional debunker who exposed frauds.  \nBeing a debunker meant Houdini turned detective, and he was ruthless about it. He would sneak into seances in disguise, sometimes bringing a reporter and a police officer to catch the medium in the act. Onstage he then repeated the very same \"ghostly\" effects, showing a stunned audience exactly how the wires, magnets, and secret knocks worked. He even testified before the United States Congress, urging lawmakers to fight fortune-telling scams. His point was simple and sharp: if a magician could fake it, a spirit did not need to be involved.  \nThat demand for proof followed him right to the end, because Houdini died on Halloween itself. On October 31, 1926, he passed away in Detroit from a burst appendix, at only 52 years old. Before his death, he and his wife Bess had made a secret pact, agreeing on a coded message that only the two of them knew. If life continued after death, he promised, he would send those exact words back to her from the other side. It was a test designed by a man who trusted evidence more than hope.  \nThat coded message turned his fans into hopeful listeners every single year.  \nBess held a seance on the anniversary of his death, waiting for the agreed-upon words, and for about ten years none ever came. In 1936, after a final rooftop seance in Hollywood, she blew out a candle and said,\"Ten years is long enough to wait for any man. \" She had loved him deeply, yet she accepted that no genuine message had arrived. Even so, fans refused to let the ritual die.  \nRefusing to quit, magicians around the world still gather each Halloween to hold what they call the Official Houdini Seance. They knock on tables and call his name, partly in tribute and partly as a friendly experiment that has never once succeeded. In a way, the silence is the point, because it honors a man who  \nspent his career demanding real proof instead of clever tricks. The Handcuff King who could escape any box left behind the one lock no one has picked. And that, more than any river or crate, may be his greatest escape of all.  \nHarry Houdini and Halloween  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) Which stage name did newspapers give Houdini for his escape acts?\u003Cbr>A. They called him the Handcuff King.\u003Cbr>B. They called him the Master of Chains.\u003Cbr>C. They called him the Great Debunker.\u003Cbr>D. They called him the King of Illusions. |  |  |  |  | Answers\u003Cbr>1.  \u003Cbr>2.  \u003Cbr>3.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2) Which claim in the passage supports the idea that Houdini valued evidence over belief?\u003Cbr>A. He died on Halloween from a burst appendix at 52.\u003Cbr>B. He argued that if a magician could fake it, no spirit was needed.\u003Cbr>C. He escaped from a locked crate","cbCaivjsqDYVHNgw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivjsqDYVHNgw","pdf",120133,"English","# Reading Passage\n## Comprehension Questions (1-10)","[{\"question\":\"What evidence did Houdini use to argue that spirit mediums were frauds?\",\"answer\":\"He observed hidden helpers, tapping, and stage effects during séance performances. 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