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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By how many has the hunger artist been applauded in his time?
(a) Gazillions.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) Thousands.
(d) Millions.

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

3. What does the artist, who has longed for these audience viewings at the circus, come to do?
(a) Shrink from them.
(b) Ask to be freed.
(c) Ask for money.
(d) Want them more and more.

4. To what is a toast drunk after the artist is released?
(a) The public.
(b) The artist.
(c) The women.
(d) The impresario.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the hunger artist avoid reading the contract?

2. What is seen inside the cage of the artist after many days pass?

3. What reminds one man of the hunger artist when he doesn't see the artist in the cage?

4. In the prime days of the hunger artist, how often did people want to see him?

5. What lights the stage of the artist at night?

(see the answer key)

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