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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of band plays the last day of the fast?
(a) A military band.
(b) A string quartet.
(c) A local orchestra.
(d) A gypsy band.

2. What is a necessary accompaniment to the profession of fasting?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Suspicion.
(c) Anger.
(d) Rudeness.

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

4. How are the animals of the circus at night?
(a) Restless.
(b) Quiet.
(c) Friendly.
(d) Peaceful.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the impresario sell to the audience?

2. What does the passerby make merry and speak of?

3. How many doctors enter the cage to measure the results of the fast?

4. For whom is seeing the hunger artist a special treat?

5. "What was a _______ of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it!"

(see the answer key)

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