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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the artist's manager called?
(a) The kaiser.
(b) The heife.
(c) The impresario.
(d) The voltar.

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

3. Everywhere, "as if by secret agreement, a positive ______ from professional fasting was in evidence."
(a) Propulsion.
(b) Revulsion.
(c) Distaste.
(d) Interest.

4. Which watchers are more to the taste of the hunger artist?
(a) Those who offer him food.
(b) Those who sit close to the bars.
(c) Those who play cards.
(d) Those who cry at his pain.

5. What does the hunger artist always feel he is being cheated from doing?
(a) Becoming a martyr.
(b) Eating.
(c) Beating his rival's record.
(d) Beating his own record.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a necessary accompaniment to the profession of fasting?

2. What lights the stage of the artist at night?

3. What is the only item of furniture in the cage?

4. How many of the permanent watchers are there at a given time?

5. Who pays for the breakfast brought to the watchers?

(see the answer key)

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