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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they bury with the hunger artist?
(a) His necklace.
(b) The straw.
(c) The impresario.
(d) His clock.

2. What does the overseer first ask the artist once he is found in the cage?
(a) "Are you still fasting?"
(b) "Are you an animal?"
(c) "Where have you been?"
(d) "Are you alive?"

3. What does no one, not even the artist know, after some time at the circus?
(a) The struggle to live.
(b) The records he is breaking.
(c) The rage inside him.
(d) The hunger he feels.

4. The hunger artist is never what?
(a) Unhappy.
(b) Full.
(c) Satisfied.
(d) Grateful.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "There were people who argued that this breakfast was an unfair attempt" to do what?

2. Of the two factions who fight around the artist's cage, which does he grow to dislike more?

3. What does a passing father occasionally stop and point out to his children?

4. When would people buy season tickets for the artist's performance?

5. What does the hunger artist wear?

(see the answer key)

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