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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. "The pampered hunger artist suddenly found himself deserted one day by the _____________."
(a) Musicians.
(b) Impresario.
(c) Amusement seekers.
(d) Butchers.

3. What does the artist stubbornly refuse to do at the last moment of his fast?
(a) Stand up.
(b) Cry.
(c) Eat.
(d) Sing.

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

5. What is the term referring to literature which shares a mood of impending doom, nightmarish narration, and a bleak and senseless complexity?
(a) Existentialist.
(b) Bleak.
(c) Absurdist.
(d) Kafkaesque.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who pays for the breakfast brought to the watchers?

2. To whom does the hunger artist hire himself out?

3. The onlookers at the beast's cage at the end of the story brace themselves and what?

4. Why does the artist reply that he "can't help it" in speaking to the overseer?

5. Who are the permanent watchers, usually?

(see the answer key)

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