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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the artist's cage bedecked with at the end of his fast?
(a) Food.
(b) Torches.
(c) Gifts.
(d) Flowers.

2. What does the hunger artist wear?
(a) A cloth rag.
(b) A loin cloth.
(c) Black tights.
(d) A turtleneck.

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

4. Where does the hunger artist perform?
(a) A glass cage.
(b) A wagon.
(c) A stage.
(d) A barred cage.

5. What does the impresario sell to the audience?
(a) Stencils.
(b) Autographs.
(c) Photographs.
(d) Sandwiches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary device is used in this sentence: "He was at once deafened by the storm of shouting."

2. What would the lax watchers do in a huddled corner?

3. For whom is the hunger artist often just a joke that happens to be in fashion?

4. What is a necessary accompaniment to the profession of fasting?

5. What does the hunger artist alone know?

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