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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who pays for the breakfast brought to the watchers?
(a) The mayor.
(b) The impresario.
(c) The artist.
(d) The musicians.

2. Why is the limit set on the artist's fasts?
(a) The artist would collapse.
(b) The artist refuses to keep going.
(c) The audience loses interest after that time.
(d) The artist would die.

3. According to the narrator, how did it used to pay very well to stage such performances?
(a) In the theater.
(b) In the circus.
(c) In the town square.
(d) Under one's own management.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How has the artist never yet left his cage at the end of a fast?

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

3. What type of band plays the last day of the fast?

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

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

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