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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the notice board by the cage keep a record of?
(a) The age of the artist.
(b) The amount of food he'd eaten.
(c) The number of days fasted.
(d) The number of days left.

2. What is the term referring to literature which shares a mood of impending doom, nightmarish narration, and a bleak and senseless complexity?
(a) Kafkaesque.
(b) Absurdist.
(c) Existentialist.
(d) Bleak.

3. What does the overseer do toward the attendants to indicate the state the artist is in?
(a) Rubs his stomach.
(b) Taps his head.
(c) Winces in pain.
(d) Jerks his arm.

4. How does the impresario feel about his method of punishments?
(a) He hates it.
(b) He feels obligated.
(c) He longs for it.
(d) He enjoys it.

5. When the great rush is past, who comes along the cage at the circus?
(a) The clowns.
(b) The stragglers.
(c) The handlers.
(d) The animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the hunger artist make no secret of, yet others don't believe him?

2. What surrounds the artist's cage at the circus?

3. The interest of the public is stimulated by a steadily increasing pressure of what?

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

5. According to the narrator, it is not only the artist that is taken on but what as well?

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