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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the artist do when the photographs are produced?
(a) Accuse the impresario of lying.
(b) Weep loudly.
(c) Sink into the straw.
(d) Shake the bars.

3. What does the artist do, causing general alarm, in his rages?
(a) Cry hysterically.
(b) Scream a piercing scream.
(c) Beat himself with a stick.
(d) Shake the bars like a wild animal.

4. According to the narrator, it is not only the artist that is taken on but what as well?
(a) His strength.
(b) His martyrdom.
(c) His impresario.
(d) His famous name.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. "What was a _______ of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it!"

2. "A large _____ with its enormous traffic in replacing and recruiting men, animals and apparatus can always find use for people at any time."

3. Of the two factions who fight around the artist's cage, which does he grow to dislike more?

4. When does the lack of interest of the public seem to take hold?

5. At the best, the audience sets the artist down as what?

(see the answer key)

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