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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what does the artist have to thank the people who passes his cage daily at the circus?
(a) The signs.
(b) The animals.
(c) The clowns.
(d) The ringleader.

2. The artist is, in fact, the only _______ to the menagerie?
(a) Excitement.
(b) Catalyst.
(c) Impediment.
(d) Decoration.

3. What does the hunger artist always feel he is being cheated from doing?
(a) Beating his rival's record.
(b) Becoming a martyr.
(c) Eating.
(d) Beating his own record.

4. What will surely come into fashion at a later date?
(a) Fasting.
(b) Hunger strikes.
(c) Bear-baiting.
(d) Trapeze artists.

5. At the best, the audience sets the artist down as what?
(a) A thief.
(b) Modest.
(c) Anorexic.
(d) A fraud.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the weight of the protagonist lands on one of the ladies, she finds "this post of honor was not at all _______."

2. The onlookers at the beast's cage at the end of the story brace themselves and what?

3. What are the artist's last words?

4. The hunger artist is never what?

5. Who would burst into tears at the release of the artist?

(see the answer key)

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