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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the artist's last words?
(a) "I wanted to go in lights."
(b) "I am a fool."
(c) "I should have made no fuss and stuffed myself like you or anyone else."
(d) "I wanted to be loved."

3. When does the lack of interest of the public seem to take hold?
(a) Gradually over years.
(b) As the tightrope walkers enter.
(c) As the radio is introduced.
(d) Almost overnight.

4. What always unnerves the artist and proves too much for him?
(a) The impresario's presence.
(b) The impresario's perversion of the truth.
(c) The undying hunger.
(d) The audience's whispering.

5. "A large _____ with its enormous traffic in replacing and recruiting men, animals and apparatus can always find use for people at any time."
(a) Circus.
(b) Museum.
(c) Vaudeville show.
(d) Fair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will surely come into fashion at a later date?

2. What grows dirty and illegible at the circus cage?

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

4. On fine days, where is the cage set?

5. "At first he could hardly wait for the _____; it was exhilarating to watch the crowds come streaming his way."

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