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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does the impresario hurry the artist to discover where interest might lay?
(a) To Africa.
(b) All over Europe.
(c) To America.
(d) To Asia.

3. 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) Call to the heavens.
(c) Laugh at them.
(d) Weep endlessly.

4. What does the impresario bring out to show the audience?
(a) Photographs of the healthy artist.
(b) Souvenir post cards.
(c) Photographs of the artist eating.
(d) Photographs of the nearly dead artist.

5. What surrounds the artist's cage at the circus?
(a) Dolls.
(b) Bright placards.
(c) Trees.
(d) Flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator writes that "during these last _____ an interest in professional fasting has diminished."

2. "There were people who argued that this breakfast was an unfair attempt" to do what?

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

4. Why is the limit set on the artist's fasts?

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

(see the answer key)

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