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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. People might have stayed longer at the artist's cage at the circus but for what?
(a) The money necessary.
(b) The screaming of the children.
(c) The crowds on the gangway.
(d) The lack of a manager.

2. The narrator writes that "during these last _____ an interest in professional fasting has diminished."
(a) Decades.
(b) Years.
(c) Months.
(d) Centuries.

3. What does a passing father occasionally stop and point out to his children?
(a) What the phenomenon means.
(b) Why he is in a cage.
(c) What happens if they don't eat.
(d) Who the poor man is.

4. What incomprehensible boast of the artist's does the impresario mention to the public?
(a) That he could fast longer.
(b) That he wants a wife.
(c) That he is hungry.
(d) That he wants freedom.

5. What sight of the crowds remain the best to the artist at the circus?
(a) The first sight in the distance.
(b) The sight as they left.
(c) The sight of them peering close.
(d) The sight of their tears.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what circumstances does the circus make use of the hunger artist?

2. What does the impresario secretly do to the hunger artist as he lifts him?

3. Who are the permanent watchers, usually?

4. What is the hunger artist's happiest moment with the overnight watchers?

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

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