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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, who has longed for these audience viewings at the circus, come to do?
(a) Ask to be freed.
(b) Want them more and more.
(c) Ask for money.
(d) Shrink from them.

2. What grows dirty and illegible at the circus cage?
(a) The artist.
(b) The animal handlers.
(c) The fine placards.
(d) The Impresario.

3. If the artist had found what, he claims, he would have stuffed himself like anyone else?
(a) The secret of happiness.
(b) Food he liked.
(c) The right woman.
(d) The perfect taco.

4. What incomprehensible boast of the artist's does the impresario mention to the public?
(a) That he wants a wife.
(b) That he is hungry.
(c) That he could fast longer.
(d) That he wants freedom.

5. What does the artist do, causing general alarm, in his rages?
(a) Shake the bars like a wild animal.
(b) Beat himself with a stick.
(c) Scream a piercing scream.
(d) Cry hysterically.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the occasional passerby come to make merry of?

2. How is the artist's performance affected by his advancing age?

3. When the hordes came pouring out to see the _____, they can hardly avoid passing the artist's cage.

4. What would the lax watchers do in a huddled corner?

5. Why does the artist reply that he "can't help it" in speaking to the overseer?

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