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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sticks out prominently on the artist?
(a) His jaw.
(b) His ribs.
(c) His knuckles.
(d) His cheekbones.

2. What does the hunger artist alone know?
(a) How lonely he is.
(b) How proud he's become.
(c) How difficult it is to fast.
(d) How easy it is to fast.

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

4. Who appears, blissful at having been selected for the honor, to help the artist down?
(a) One mother.
(b) Three children.
(c) Two men.
(d) Two women.

5. In the prime days of the hunger artist, how often did people want to see him?
(a) Once every hour.
(b) Once a day.
(c) Once a month.
(d) Once a week.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, how did it used to pay very well to stage such performances?

2. Where does the hunger artist perform?

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

4. What is the artist's manager called?

5. At the best, the audience sets the artist down as what?

(see the answer key)

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