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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who selects the permanent watchers?
(a) The manager.
(b) The artist.
(c) The mayor.
(d) The public.

2. How has the artist never yet left his cage at the end of a fast?
(a) Sadly.
(b) Of his free will.
(c) On his feet.
(d) Joyfully.

3. What does the hunger artist always feel he is being cheated from doing?
(a) Beating his rival's record.
(b) Beating his own record.
(c) Becoming a martyr.
(d) Eating.

4. What does the artist, who has longed for these audience viewings at the circus, come to do?
(a) Ask to be freed.
(b) Want them more and more.
(c) Shrink from them.
(d) Ask for money.

5. What is the cushioning on the hunger artist's stage?
(a) Straw.
(b) Feathers.
(c) Mats.
(d) Pillows.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the impresario hurry the artist to discover where interest might lay?

2. What does the impresario bring out to show the audience?

3. Who pays for the breakfast brought to the watchers?

4. What does the artist stubbornly refuse to do at the last moment of his fast?

5. What does the artist do, causing general alarm, in his rages?

(see the answer key)

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