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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of the permanent watchers are there at a given time?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

2. Who sets the limit on the artist's fasts?
(a) The artist.
(b) The maestro.
(c) The impresario.
(d) The artist's father.

3. Why does the impresario suggest the artist's behavior is to be excused?
(a) His need of sleep.
(b) His dampened spirit.
(c) Irritability due to fasting.
(d) His god-like purity.

4. Why do many people regretfully have to keep away from his exhibitions?
(a) The sight of him is too much.
(b) They can't afford it.
(c) They are worried for his health.
(d) They want his fasts to last longer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the limit of the artist's fast set to be?

2. What does the hunger artist alone know?

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

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

5. What faction fights against those who want to look at the artist at the circus?

(see the answer key)

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