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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the impresario sell to the audience?
(a) Sandwiches.
(b) Autographs.
(c) Photographs.
(d) Stencils.

2. Why is the limit set on the artist's fasts?
(a) The audience loses interest after that time.
(b) The artist would die.
(c) The artist would collapse.
(d) The artist refuses to keep going.

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

4. When the watchers are invited to take on a night's vigil without a breakfast, what do they do?
(a) Lie about the artist.
(b) Make themselves scarce.
(c) Get angry.
(d) Insist on money.

5. For whom is seeing the hunger artist a special treat?
(a) Women.
(b) Animals.
(c) Children.
(d) The elderly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the hunger artist alone know?

2. What would the children do "for greater security" while watching the artist?

3. What does the hunger artist wear?

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

5. By how many has the hunger artist been applauded in his time?

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