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A Hunger Artist Quiz

Franz Kafka
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A Hunger Artist Quiz

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1)

Who supposedly orders the toast? (from Part 2)

The kaiser.
The impresario.
The priest.
The artist.
2)

What does the animal in the cage at the end of the story seem to carry around with it? (from Part 3)

Rage.
Freedom.
Happiness.
Ferociousness.
3)

What incomprehensible boast of the artist's does the impresario mention to the public? (from Part 2)

That he could fast longer.
That he is hungry.
That he wants freedom.
That he wants a wife.
4)

Why does the impresario suggest the artist's behavior is to be excused? (from Part 2)

His god-like purity.
His dampened spirit.
His need of sleep.
Irritability due to fasting.
5)

From what day of the fast are the photographs taken? (from Part 2)

The first.
The seventh.
The fortieth.
The fifteenth.
6)

How is the artist's performance affected by his advancing age? (from Part 2)

It is more desperate.
It is not impaired.
It is more difficult.
It is easier.
7)

The animal in the cage at the end of the story is "furnished to the bursting point with" what? (from Part 3)

Love.
Hunger.
Joy.
All it needs.
8)

What is the term referring to literature which shares a mood of impending doom, nightmarish narration, and a bleak and senseless complexity? (from Part 3)

Existentialist.
Bleak.
Kafkaesque.
Absurdist.
9)

Under what circumstances does the circus make use of the hunger artist? (from Part 2)

He behaves.
He feeds the animals.
He is not paid.
He doesn't ask much.
10)

What does the impresario claim to praise of the artist to the public? (from Part 2)

His godliness.
His ignorance.
His ambition.
His dedication.
11)

The artist might fast _____ at the circus, and does so. (from Part 3)

For a week.
For a month.
For forty days.
As long as he could.
12)

People might have stayed longer at the artist's cage at the circus but for what? (from Part 2)

The crowds on the gangway.
The money necessary.
The screaming of the children.
The lack of a manager.
13)

What does the artist do when the photographs are produced? (from Part 2)

Weep loudly.
Sink into the straw.
Accuse the impresario of lying.
Shake the bars.
14)

The hunger artist tells the overseer, "I always wanted you to _____ my fasting." (from Part 3)

Admire.
Celebrate.
Encourage.
Sympathize.
15)

Who can hardly understand the artist's temperament, according to the impresario? (from Part 2)

Women.
Animals.
The impresario.
Well-fed people.
16)

For what does the artist have to thank the people who passes his cage daily at the circus? (from Part 3)

The animals.
The ringleader.
The signs.
The clowns.
17)

What does the overseer do toward the attendants to indicate the state the artist is in? (from Part 3)

Taps his head.
Jerks his arm.
Rubs his stomach.
Winces in pain.
18)

What does a passing father occasionally stop and point out to his children? (from Part 2)

What happens if they don't eat.
Why he is in a cage.
What the phenomenon means.
Who the poor man is.
19)

What is put into the cage the artist had lived in? (from Part 3)

A tiger.
A panther.
A lion.
A cougar.
20)

The onlookers at the beast's cage at the end of the story brace themselves and what? (from Part 3)

Do not cry anymore.
Do not ever want to move away.
Scream.
Cry.
21)

"A large _____ with its enormous traffic in replacing and recruiting men, animals and apparatus can always find use for people at any time." (from Part 2)

Fair.
Museum.
Vaudeville show.
Circus.
22)

From what aspect of the menagerie does the artist suffer? (from Part 3)

The stench.
The animal hair.
The food.
The crying children.
23)

What surrounds the artist's cage at the circus? (from Part 2)

Dolls.
Flowers.
Bright placards.
Trees.
24)

Of those who pass his cage daily at the circus, how many might take an interest in the artist? (from Part 3)

Hundreds.
Dozens.
One or two.
Thousands.
25)

What does the artist do, causing general alarm, in his rages? (from Part 2)

Shake the bars like a wild animal.
Cry hysterically.
Scream a piercing scream.
Beat himself with a stick.
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