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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who supposedly orders the toast?
(a) The kaiser.
(b) The artist.
(c) The priest.
(d) The impresario.

2. As the artist fasts on and on, what is it to him?
(a) A misery.
(b) A joyful accomplishment.
(c) No trouble.
(d) A great hurdle.

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

4. "Even the most _____ felt it refreshing to see this wild creature leaping around the cage that had so long been dreary."
(a) Insensitive.
(b) Depressed.
(c) Loving.
(d) Melancholy.

5. The animal in the cage at the end of the story is "furnished to the bursting point with" what?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Love.
(c) Joy.
(d) All it needs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eventually, at the circus, the notice board does what?

2. What are the first words of dialogue the artist speaks in the short story?

3. In what tense is "A Hunger Artist" written?

4. What genre of literature is "A Hunger Artist" considered to be?

5. How does the creature who replaces the artist feel about its freedom?

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