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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What lights the stage of the artist at night?
(a) Candles.
(b) A spotlight.
(c) Lamps.
(d) Torch flares.

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

4. How is the artist's performance affected by his advancing age?
(a) It is more desperate.
(b) It is more difficult.
(c) It is easier.
(d) It is not impaired.

5. For what does the artist have to thank the people who passes his cage daily at the circus?
(a) The signs.
(b) The clowns.
(c) The animals.
(d) The ringleader.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the artist tell the overseer they should not admire his fasting?

2. How long is the limit of the artist's fast set to be?

3. How are the animals of the circus at night?

4. How does the artist feel about the roaring at feeding times?

5. What streams from the beast in the cage's throat at the end of the story?

(see the answer key)

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