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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What faction fights against those who want to look at the artist at the circus?
(a) Those who want a better view.
(b) Those who want past to the animals.
(c) Those who want to kill him.
(d) Those who manage him.

3. What does the impresario claim to praise of the artist to the public?
(a) His dedication.
(b) His ignorance.
(c) His ambition.
(d) His godliness.

4. What lights the stage of the artist at night?
(a) Lamps.
(b) Torch flares.
(c) A spotlight.
(d) Candles.

5. Who sets the limit on the artist's fasts?
(a) The artist's father.
(b) The impresario.
(c) The artist.
(d) The maestro.

Short Answer Questions

1. The permanent watchers are a formality to reassure whom?

2. Those who want to stare at the artist at the circus do so not out of interest, but out of what?

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

4. What does the artist, who has longed for these audience viewings at the circus, come to do?

5. Where, in regard to the ring, is the artist stationed?

(see the answer key)

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