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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the results of the fast announced?
(a) By television.
(b) By megaphone.
(c) By microphone.
(d) By radio.

2. According to the narrator, it is not only the artist that is taken on but what as well?
(a) His impresario.
(b) His strength.
(c) His martyrdom.
(d) His famous name.

3. What does the hunger artist make no secret of, yet others don't believe him?
(a) That he is starving.
(b) That he isn't hungry.
(c) That fasting is easy.
(d) That fasting is difficult.

4. What do the audiences do once the artist collapses into the straw with a groan?
(a) Press close to gaze at him.
(b) Applaud.
(c) Run away.
(d) Weep loudly.

5. What does a passing father occasionally stop and point out to his children?
(a) Who the poor man is.
(b) What the phenomenon means.
(c) What happens if they don't eat.
(d) Why he is in a cage.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the limit of the artist's fast set to be?

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

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

4. Why is the limit set on the artist's fasts?

5. "The pampered hunger artist suddenly found himself deserted one day by the _____________."

(see the answer key)

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