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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the impresario suggest the artist's behavior is to be excused?
(a) His need of sleep.
(b) Irritability due to fasting.
(c) His god-like purity.
(d) His dampened spirit.

2. What would the lax watchers do in a huddled corner?
(a) Drink.
(b) Play cards.
(c) Play dice.
(d) Eat.

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

4. How does the impresario punish the artist's rages?
(a) Beat the artist.
(b) Apologize publically.
(c) Feed the artist.
(d) Scream at the artist.

5. Those who are not content with the dim night lighting of the hall focused the artist in the full glare of what?
(a) A bright spotlight.
(b) An electric pocket torch.
(c) A neon bulb.
(d) A candle.

Short Answer Questions

1. "There were people who argued that this breakfast was an unfair attempt" to do what?

2. How does the impresario feel about his method of punishments?

3. How many doctors enter the cage to measure the results of the fast?

4. The permanent watchers are a formality to reassure whom?

5. What is one reason the hunger artist cannot adopt another profession?

(see the answer key)

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