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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the permanent watchers, usually?
(a) Priests.
(b) Candy salesmen.
(c) Butchers.
(d) Mothers.

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

3. What does the impresario secretly do to the hunger artist as he lifts him?
(a) Kick him.
(b) Shakes him.
(c) Stab him.
(d) Bite him.

4. "A large _____ with its enormous traffic in replacing and recruiting men, animals and apparatus can always find use for people at any time."
(a) Museum.
(b) Fair.
(c) Circus.
(d) Vaudeville show.

5. By how many has the hunger artist been applauded in his time?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) Thousands.
(c) Gazillions.
(d) Millions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who pays for the breakfast brought to the watchers?

2. According to the narrator, it is not only the artist that is taken on but what as well?

3. For whom is seeing the hunger artist a special treat?

4. What does the artist hold outside the bars from time to time?

5. What does the hunger artist wear?

(see the answer key)

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