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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the watchers are invited to take on a night's vigil without a breakfast, what do they do?
(a) Lie about the artist.
(b) Get angry.
(c) Make themselves scarce.
(d) Insist on money.

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 theater.
(c) In the circus.
(d) In the town square.

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

4. What do most of the watchers think the artist is looking for?
(a) Publicity.
(b) Money.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Martyrdom.

5. "Those, whom nothing could have prevented from stopping to look at him ________, raced past with long strides."
(a) For their children's sake.
(b) As long as they had breath.
(c) For the artist's sake.
(d) If they so wanted.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does the artist answer questions?

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

3. In what tense is "A Hunger Artist" written?

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

5. How many doctors enter the cage to measure the results of the fast?

(see the answer key)

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