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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the hunger artist avoid reading the contract?
(a) To spare his own feelings.
(b) Because he couldn't read.
(c) To save himself money.
(d) Because he had no manager.

2. What does the impresario sell to the audience?
(a) Stencils.
(b) Sandwiches.
(c) Autographs.
(d) Photographs.

3. "A large _____ with its enormous traffic in replacing and recruiting men, animals and apparatus can always find use for people at any time."
(a) Museum.
(b) Vaudeville show.
(c) Fair.
(d) Circus.

4. What do the stragglers do when passing the artist's cage in the circus?
(a) Wait for him to talk.
(b) Stand a long time.
(c) Hardly glance at him.
(d) Give him money.

5. What does a passing father occasionally stop and point out to his children?
(a) Why he is in a cage.
(b) What happens if they don't eat.
(c) What the phenomenon means.
(d) Who the poor man is.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sight of the crowds remain the best to the artist at the circus?

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

3. What incomprehensible boast of the artist's does the impresario mention to the public?

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

5. Those who want to stare at the artist at the circus do so not out of interest, but out of what?

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