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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the artist do when someone would suggest his melancholy is probably caused by his fasting?
(a) Laugh at them.
(b) Break into an outburst of fury.
(c) Call to the heavens.
(d) Weep endlessly.

2. What does the artist do when the photographs are produced?
(a) Accuse the impresario of lying.
(b) Weep loudly.
(c) Sink into the straw.
(d) Shake the bars.

3. What does the hunger artist make no secret of, yet others don't believe him?
(a) That fasting is easy.
(b) That he isn't hungry.
(c) That fasting is difficult.
(d) That he is starving.

4. What does the impresario secretly do to the hunger artist as he lifts him?
(a) Kick him.
(b) Bite him.
(c) Shakes him.
(d) Stab him.

5. What literary device is used in this sentence: "He was at once deafened by the storm of shouting."
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Irony.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the artist, who has longed for these audience viewings at the circus, come to do?

2. Everywhere, "as if by secret agreement, a positive ______ from professional fasting was in evidence."

3. What would the hunger artist do to prove he wasn't eating?

4. Who lends the watchers the bright light to focus on the artist?

5. Who takes leave of the impresario?

(see the answer key)

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