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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the best, the audience sets the artist down as what?
(a) Modest.
(b) A thief.
(c) Anorexic.
(d) A fraud.

2. What does the artist do when someone would suggest his melancholy is probably caused by his fasting?
(a) Break into an outburst of fury.
(b) Weep endlessly.
(c) Laugh at them.
(d) Call to the heavens.

3. Everywhere, "as if by secret agreement, a positive ______ from professional fasting was in evidence."
(a) Propulsion.
(b) Interest.
(c) Revulsion.
(d) Distaste.

4. "What was a _______ of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it!"
(a) Result.
(b) Gallantry.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Consequence.

5. What is the artist's cage bedecked with at the end of his fast?
(a) Gifts.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Food.
(d) Torches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the artist feel the world is cheating him of for his achievement?

2. What does the artist drink every now and again?

3. "A Hunger Artist" is often considered to be Kafka's most _______ story.

4. How many of the permanent watchers are there at a given time?

5. Eventually, at the circus, the notice board does what?

(see the answer key)

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