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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the narrator, how did it used to pay very well to stage such performances?
(a) In the theater.
(b) In the town square.
(c) In the circus.
(d) Under one's own management.

3. How long does the artist carry on in this way, with small intervals of recuperation?
(a) Six months.
(b) Three years.
(c) Many years.
(d) One year.

4. How does the impresario punish the artist's rages?
(a) Feed the artist.
(b) Apologize publically.
(c) Scream at the artist.
(d) Beat the artist.

5. What is the hunger artist's happiest moment with the overnight watchers?
(a) When they applaud.
(b) When they are brought breakfast.
(c) When they offer him food.
(d) When they leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a passing father occasionally stop and point out to his children?

2. Who is bound to be the sole, completely satisfied spectator of the artist's fast?

3. The ladies who help the artist down are apparently so friendly and in reality are so what?

4. How has the artist never yet left his cage at the end of a fast?

5. When the weight of the protagonist lands on one of the ladies, she finds "this post of honor was not at all _______."

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