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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the artist do when someone would suggest his melancholy is probably caused by his fasting?
(a) Break into an outburst of fury.
(b) Laugh at them.
(c) Call to the heavens.
(d) Weep endlessly.

2. Who could produce first-hand evidence that the fast has really been rigorous and continuous?
(a) The musicians.
(b) The artist.
(c) The impresario.
(d) The watchers.

3. When the weight of the protagonist lands on one of the ladies, she finds "this post of honor was not at all _______."
(a) A post of honor.
(b) What she expected it to be.
(c) A saintly gesture.
(d) A delight.

4. Of the two factions who fight around the artist's cage, which does he grow to dislike more?
(a) The ones who want past.
(b) The ones who want to feed him.
(c) The ones who fight for the better view.
(d) The ones who want to stop and stare.

5. "The pampered hunger artist suddenly found himself deserted one day by the _____________."
(a) Musicians.
(b) Butchers.
(c) Impresario.
(d) Amusement seekers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the artist do, causing general alarm, in his rages?

2. What does the artist tell stories of with his watchers?

3. When would people buy season tickets for the artist's performance?

4. "Those, whom nothing could have prevented from stopping to look at him ________, raced past with long strides."

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

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