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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the hunger artist alone know?
(a) How lonely he is.
(b) How proud he's become.
(c) How easy it is to fast.
(d) How difficult it is to fast.

2. The artist's inner what is always rankled?
(a) Rage.
(b) Desperation.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Dissatisfaction.

3. When the watchers are invited to take on a night's vigil without a breakfast, what do they do?
(a) Lie about the artist.
(b) Insist on money.
(c) Get angry.
(d) Make themselves scarce.

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

5. Who could produce first-hand evidence that the fast has really been rigorous and continuous?
(a) The artist.
(b) The impresario.
(c) The watchers.
(d) The musicians.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the results of the fast announced?

2. Why do many people regretfully have to keep away from his exhibitions?

3. How does the artist feel about the bright light used by some watchers?

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

5. The interest of the public is stimulated by a steadily increasing pressure of what?

(see the answer key)

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