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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When would people buy season tickets for the artist's performance?
(a) The entire fast.
(b) The last month of the fast.
(c) The last few days of the fast.
(d) The first days of the fast.

2. How has the artist never yet left his cage at the end of a fast?
(a) Of his free will.
(b) Joyfully.
(c) Sadly.
(d) On his feet.

3. Who could watch the hunger artist continuously, day and night?
(a) The cameras.
(b) The reporter.
(c) No one.
(d) The impresario.

4. What does the artist tell stories of with his watchers?
(a) His joy.
(b) His hunger.
(c) His craft.
(d) His nomadic life.

5. At the best, the audience sets the artist down as what?
(a) Modest.
(b) A fraud.
(c) Anorexic.
(d) A thief.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the artist drink every now and again?

2. What does the artist stubbornly refuse to do at the last moment of his fast?

3. What does the hunger artist alone know?

4. Who lends the watchers the bright light to focus on the artist?

5. The narrator writes that "during these last _____ an interest in professional fasting has diminished."

(see the answer key)

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