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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the artist drink every now and again?
(a) Wine.
(b) Milk.
(c) Mead.
(d) Water.

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

3. "There were people who argued that this breakfast was an unfair attempt" to do what?
(a) Poison the watchers.
(b) Bribe the watchers.
(c) Humiliate the watchers.
(d) Prove his humility.

4. When the hordes came pouring out to see the _____, they can hardly avoid passing the artist's cage.
(a) Animals.
(b) Monkeys.
(c) Parachutists.
(d) Clowns.

5. Who can hardly understand the artist's temperament, according to the impresario?
(a) Well-fed people.
(b) Women.
(c) The impresario.
(d) Animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does the artist carry on in this way, with small intervals of recuperation?

2. Which watchers are more to the taste of the hunger artist?

3. "What was a _______ of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it!"

4. What does the artist hold outside the bars from time to time?

5. People might have stayed longer at the artist's cage at the circus but for what?

(see the answer key)

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