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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the prime days of the hunger artist, how often did people want to see him?
(a) Once a month.
(b) Once a week.
(c) Once a day.
(d) Once every hour.

2. How long does the artist carry on in this way, with small intervals of recuperation?
(a) Six months.
(b) Three years.
(c) Many years.
(d) One year.

3. When the hordes came pouring out to see the _____, they can hardly avoid passing the artist's cage.
(a) Monkeys.
(b) Animals.
(c) Parachutists.
(d) Clowns.

4. Whose eye falls on the cage one day and asks why it should be unused?
(a) An emcee.
(b) An animal handler.
(c) A clown.
(d) An overseer.

5. The children who see the artist at the circus are what?
(a) Cruel.
(b) Overjoyed.
(c) Mischievous.
(d) Uncomprehending.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What food is brought to the creature in the cage who replaces the artist?

3. What does the artist do when someone would suggest his melancholy is probably caused by his fasting?

4. What does the artist, who has longed for these audience viewings at the circus, come to do?

5. What is the hunger artist's happiest moment with the overnight watchers?

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