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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 the artist feel the world is cheating him of for his achievement?
(a) His food.
(b) His money.
(c) His reward.
(d) His love.

2. The narrator writes that "during these last _____ an interest in professional fasting has diminished."
(a) Centuries.
(b) Years.
(c) Decades.
(d) Months.

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

4. The permanent watchers are a formality to reassure whom?
(a) The impresario.
(b) The masses.
(c) The artist.
(d) The children.

5. What is one reason the hunger artist cannot adopt another profession?
(a) He is too poor.
(b) He is too old.
(c) He can't read.
(d) He is unskilled.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which watchers are more to the taste of the hunger artist?

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

3. What have the children not been prepared for when seeing the artist?

4. Why does the impresario suggest the artist's behavior is to be excused?

5. How long is the limit of the artist's fast set to be?

(see the answer key)

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