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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the hunger artist perform?
(a) A glass cage.
(b) A wagon.
(c) A barred cage.
(d) A stage.

2. The narrator writes that "during these last _____ an interest in professional fasting has diminished."
(a) Months.
(b) Centuries.
(c) Decades.
(d) Years.

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

4. Who sets the limit on the artist's fasts?
(a) The impresario.
(b) The maestro.
(c) The artist.
(d) The artist's father.

5. How many doctors enter the cage to measure the results of the fast?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the artist stubbornly refuse to do at the last moment of his fast?

3. What cannot hold out against the fact that the crowds are on their way only to the menagerie?

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

5. For whom is the hunger artist often just a joke that happens to be in fashion?

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