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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 hunger artist stationed next to at the circus?
(a) The tightropes.
(b) The freak show.
(c) The animal cages.
(d) The trampoline.

2. When the watchers are invited to take on a night's vigil without a breakfast, what do they do?
(a) Make themselves scarce.
(b) Get angry.
(c) Insist on money.
(d) Lie about the artist.

3. With what does the artist answer questions?
(a) A joyful reverence.
(b) A great smile.
(c) A laugh.
(d) A constrained smile.

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

5. The passing father might tell his children of "earlier years when he had watched similar but ___________ performances."
(a) More barbaric.
(b) Sadder.
(c) Much more thrilling.
(d) More excruciating.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What would the hunger artist do to prove he wasn't eating?

3. How is the artist's performance affected by his advancing age?

4. Time and time again in good faith the artist stands by the bars doing what?

5. What is the artist's cage bedecked with at the end of his fast?

(see the answer key)

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