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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under what circumstances does the circus make use of the hunger artist?
(a) He behaves.
(b) He doesn't ask much.
(c) He feeds the animals.
(d) He is not paid.

2. According to the narrator, how did it used to pay very well to stage such performances?
(a) Under one's own management.
(b) In the circus.
(c) In the theater.
(d) In the town square.

3. Why is the limit set on the artist's fasts?
(a) The artist refuses to keep going.
(b) The artist would die.
(c) The audience loses interest after that time.
(d) The artist would collapse.

4. What will surely come into fashion at a later date?
(a) Bear-baiting.
(b) Trapeze artists.
(c) Hunger strikes.
(d) Fasting.

5. To what is a toast drunk after the artist is released?
(a) The impresario.
(b) The women.
(c) The public.
(d) The artist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which watchers are more to the taste of the hunger artist?

2. Where, in regard to the ring, is the artist stationed?

3. When the hordes came pouring out to see the _____, they can hardly avoid passing the artist's cage.

4. Those who are not content with the dim night lighting of the hall focused the artist in the full glare of what?

5. Who can hardly understand the artist's temperament, according to the impresario?

(see the answer key)

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