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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who pays for the breakfast brought to the watchers?
(a) The musicians.
(b) The impresario.
(c) The mayor.
(d) The artist.

2. What is one reason the hunger artist cannot adopt another profession?
(a) He is too poor.
(b) He is too old.
(c) He is unskilled.
(d) He can't read.

3. Under what circumstances does the circus make use of the hunger artist?
(a) He doesn't ask much.
(b) He feeds the animals.
(c) He is not paid.
(d) He behaves.

4. Everywhere, "as if by secret agreement, a positive ______ from professional fasting was in evidence."
(a) Propulsion.
(b) Revulsion.
(c) Interest.
(d) Distaste.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the impresario claim to praise of the artist to the public?

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

3. What is the hunger artist stationed next to at the circus?

4. What always unnerves the artist and proves too much for him?

5. What sticks out prominently on the artist?

(see the answer key)

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