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A man dangles upside down inside a locked tank of water, his wrists chained tight. Seconds tick by, and then he bursts free, dripping and grinning! That was Harry Houdini, the most famous escape artist who ever lived, and he could slip out of handcuffs, ropes, and locked boxes as if they were made of paper.  \nEscaping from chains was only half of what made him a legend.  \nHoudini also became a kind of detective who chased down cheaters. In his time, people called\"spirit mediums\" claimed they could talk to the dead for a fee, making tables float and voices whisper in dark rooms. Houdini knew every trick they used, because he used similar tricks himself on stage, and he thought it was cruel to fool grieving families.  \nBecause he knew those secrets, he set out to expose the fakers. Sometimes he wore a disguise and sat quietly at a seance, then jumped up to reveal exactly how the \"ghost\" was really a hidden hand or a wire. He even offered money to any medium who could show him a real spirit, and no one ever collected it. To Houdini, believing something meant asking for proof, not just wanting it to be true.  \nHis hunt for proof followed him right to the end of his life. Houdini died on October 31, 1926 \\u2014 Halloween \\u2014 which felt almost too strange to be real. Before he died, he and his wife, Bess, made a secret plan: if there truly was life after death, he would send her a coded message that only the two of them knew. Each year on Halloween, Bess held a seance and waited to hear from him.  \nFor ten years she listened, and the coded message never came. In 1936 Bess finally blew out the candle and said she had waited long enough. Yet fans around the world still gather every Halloween to hold a \"Houdini seance,\"partly for fun and partly to honor him. The greatest escape artist of all time has never sent word back \\u2014 which is exactly the kind of proof he spent his life asking people to demand.  \nHarry Houdini and Halloween  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) What did Harry Houdini become most famous for doing?\u003Cbr>A. Building the largest theaters in America\u003Cbr>B. Escaping from handcuffs, ropes, and locked boxes\u003Cbr>C. Painting portraits of famous performers\u003Cbr>D. Training animals for circus shows |  |  |  |  | Answers\u003Cbr>1.  \u003Cbr>2.  \u003Cbr>3.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2) What happened after Bess waited for ten Halloweens?\u003Cbr>A. She traveled the world exposing fake mediums\u003Cbr>B. She blew out the candle and stopped holding her seance\u003Cbr>C. She finally heard the coded message she wanted\u003Cbr>D. She began performing escapes of her own |  |  |  |  | 4.  \u003Cbr>5.  \u003Cbr>6.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 3) In the article, what does the word 'expose' mean?\u003Cbr>A. To perform a trick in front of a crowd\u003Cbr>B. To reveal or show something that was hidden\u003Cbr>C. To pay someone a large amount of money\u003Cbr>D. To lock something inside a strong box |  |  |  |  | 7.  \u003Cbr>8.  \u003Cbr>9.  \u003Cbr>10.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 4) How does the author mostly organize this whole passage?\u003Cbr>A. By describing what a theater looks like inside\u003Cbr>B. By comparing two different magicians side by side\u003Cbr>C. By listing problems and then their solutions\u003Cbr>D. By telling events in the order they happened over time |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 5) What plan did Houdini and Bess make before he died?\u003Cbr>A. She would hide his tools in a locked tank\u003Cbr>B. He would send her a secret coded message from the afterlife\u003Cbr>C. She would perform his escape act on Halloween\u003Cbr>D. He would leave her a written list of all his tricks |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 6) Why did Houdini decide to expose the spirit mediums?\u003Cbr>A. He was paid by the newspapers to do it\u003Cbr>B. He wanted to become a medium himself\u003Cbr>C. He needed new tricks for his own act\u003Cbr>D. 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