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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the impresario feel about his method of punishments?
(a) He enjoys it.
(b) He longs for it.
(c) He hates it.
(d) He feels obligated.

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

3. "Those, whom nothing could have prevented from stopping to look at him ________, raced past with long strides."
(a) For their children's sake.
(b) For the artist's sake.
(c) As long as they had breath.
(d) If they so wanted.

4. What does the artist stubbornly refuse to do at the last moment of his fast?
(a) Sing.
(b) Cry.
(c) Stand up.
(d) Eat.

5. What does the passerby make merry and speak of?
(a) Animals.
(b) Starving.
(c) Swindling.
(d) Food.

Short Answer Questions

1. The artist might fast _____ at the circus, and does so.

2. What reminds one man of the hunger artist when he doesn't see the artist in the cage?

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

4. According to the narrator, how did it used to pay very well to stage such performances?

5. "A Hunger Artist" is often considered to be Kafka's most _______ story.

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