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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they bury with the hunger artist?
(a) The straw.
(b) His necklace.
(c) His clock.
(d) The impresario.

2. 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.

3. What would the lax watchers do in a huddled corner?
(a) Drink.
(b) Play dice.
(c) Eat.
(d) Play cards.

4. How has the artist never yet left his cage at the end of a fast?
(a) Sadly.
(b) Joyfully.
(c) On his feet.
(d) Of his free will.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of band plays the last day of the fast?

2. How is the artist found in his cage at the circus?

3. Who could watch the hunger artist continuously, day and night?

4. The permanent watchers are a formality to reassure whom?

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

(see the answer key)

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