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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Time and time again in good faith the artist stands by the bars doing what?
(a) Listening to the impresario.
(b) Screaming madly.
(c) Feeling in agony.
(d) Crying like a child.

3. How long is the limit of the artist's fast set to be?
(a) Forty days.
(b) Four weeks.
(c) Four months.
(d) Three weeks.

4. Why is the limit set on the artist's fasts?
(a) The artist refuses to keep going.
(b) The artist would die.
(c) The audience loses interest after that time.
(d) The artist would collapse.

5. Who selects the permanent watchers?
(a) The manager.
(b) The public.
(c) The artist.
(d) The mayor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What incomprehensible boast of the artist's does the impresario mention to the public?

3. What is the hunger artist's happiest moment with the overnight watchers?

4. What surrounds the artist's cage at the circus?

5. What do the stragglers do when passing the artist's cage in the circus?

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