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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Even the most _____ felt it refreshing to see this wild creature leaping around the cage that had so long been dreary."
(a) Melancholy.
(b) Depressed.
(c) Loving.
(d) Insensitive.

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

3. The passerby's joking is, in its way, the "stupidest lie ever invented by _____ and inborn malice."
(a) Anger.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Admiration.

4. What literary device is used in this sentence: "He was at once deafened by the storm of shouting."
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Irony.

5. "Those, whom nothing could have prevented from stopping to look at him ________, raced past with long strides."
(a) As long as they had breath.
(b) For their children's sake.
(c) For the artist's sake.
(d) If they so wanted.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What grows dirty and illegible at the circus cage?

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

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

5. What is the term referring to literature which shares a mood of impending doom, nightmarish narration, and a bleak and senseless complexity?

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