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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the artist, who has longed for these audience viewings at the circus, come to do?
(a) Want them more and more.
(b) Ask to be freed.
(c) Ask for money.
(d) Shrink from them.

2. Contrary to people's regard, the hunger artist states that he could do what if given the opportunity at the circus?
(a) Quit starving.
(b) Learn to walk the tightrope.
(c) Walk on fire.
(d) Establish a record never yet achieved.

3. What always unnerves the artist and proves too much for him?
(a) The impresario's perversion of the truth.
(b) The audience's whispering.
(c) The impresario's presence.
(d) The undying hunger.

4. When does the lack of interest of the public seem to take hold?
(a) Almost overnight.
(b) As the tightrope walkers enter.
(c) As the radio is introduced.
(d) Gradually over years.

5. Who can hardly understand the artist's temperament, according to the impresario?
(a) The impresario.
(b) Women.
(c) Animals.
(d) Well-fed people.

6. Where, in regard to the ring, is the artist stationed?
(a) In the middle.
(b) Outside.
(c) Front and center.
(d) Behind.

7. What sight of the crowds remain the best to the artist at the circus?
(a) The sight as they left.
(b) The sight of them peering close.
(c) The sight of their tears.
(d) The first sight in the distance.

8. Under what circumstances does the circus make use of the hunger artist?
(a) He is not paid.
(b) He doesn't ask much.
(c) He feeds the animals.
(d) He behaves.

9. "The pampered hunger artist suddenly found himself deserted one day by the _____________."
(a) Amusement seekers.
(b) Impresario.
(c) Butchers.
(d) Musicians.

10. How long does the artist carry on in this way, with small intervals of recuperation?
(a) One year.
(b) Three years.
(c) Six months.
(d) Many years.

11. According to the narrator, it is not only the artist that is taken on but what as well?
(a) His impresario.
(b) His strength.
(c) His martyrdom.
(d) His famous name.

12. What faction fights against those who want to look at the artist at the circus?
(a) Those who want past to the animals.
(b) Those who want a better view.
(c) Those who want to kill him.
(d) Those who manage him.

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

14. What cannot hold out against the fact that the crowds are on their way only to the menagerie?
(a) Innate unknowing.
(b) Desperate facade.
(c) Manic necessity.
(d) Obstinate self-deception.

15. Time and time again in good faith the artist stands by the bars doing what?
(a) Crying like a child.
(b) Feeling in agony.
(c) Listening to the impresario.
(d) Screaming madly.

Short Answer Questions

1. The passing father might tell his children of "earlier years when he had watched similar but ___________ performances."

2. People might have stayed longer at the artist's cage at the circus but for what?

3. Why does the hunger artist avoid reading the contract?

4. What will surely come into fashion at a later date?

5. "What was a _______ of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it!"

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