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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 a passing father occasionally stop and point out to his children?
(a) Why he is in a cage.
(b) Who the poor man is.
(c) What the phenomenon means.
(d) What happens if they don't eat.

2. Who can hardly understand the artist's temperament, according to the impresario?
(a) The impresario.
(b) Women.
(c) Animals.
(d) Well-fed people.

3. Time and time again in good faith the artist stands by the bars doing what?
(a) Screaming madly.
(b) Listening to the impresario.
(c) Feeling in agony.
(d) Crying like a child.

4. "Just try to explain to _____ the art of fasting!"
(a) Anyone.
(b) Mothers.
(c) Children.
(d) Animals.

5. Why is the limit set on the artist's fasts?
(a) The audience loses interest after that time.
(b) The artist refuses to keep going.
(c) The artist would collapse.
(d) The artist would die.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the artist fasts on and on, what is it to him?

2. Who are the permanent watchers, usually?

3. In the prime days of the hunger artist, how often did people want to see him?

4. When the weight of the protagonist lands on one of the ladies, she finds "this post of honor was not at all _______."

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

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