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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what day of the fast are the photographs taken?
(a) The seventh.
(b) The first.
(c) The fortieth.
(d) The fifteenth.

2. Where, in regard to the ring, is the artist stationed?
(a) In the middle.
(b) Outside.
(c) Behind.
(d) Front and center.

3. Which watchers are more to the taste of the hunger artist?
(a) Those who offer him food.
(b) Those who sit close to the bars.
(c) Those who play cards.
(d) Those who cry at his pain.

4. What does the animal in the cage at the end of the story seem to carry around with it?
(a) Rage.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Ferociousness.
(d) Happiness.

5. What literary device is used in this sentence: "He was at once deafened by the storm of shouting."
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Irony.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sight of the crowds remain the best to the artist at the circus?

2. At the best, the audience sets the artist down as what?

3. "A large _____ with its enormous traffic in replacing and recruiting men, animals and apparatus can always find use for people at any time."

4. What is the rare stroke of luck the artist encounters at the circus?

5. What does the hunger artist make no secret of, yet others don't believe him?

(see the answer key)

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