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

2. How is the artist found in his cage at the circus?
(a) The attendants call his name.
(b) He calls for help.
(c) The impresario finds him.
(d) The attendants poke the straw with a stick.

3. What does a passing father occasionally stop and point out to his children?
(a) What the phenomenon means.
(b) What happens if they don't eat.
(c) Why he is in a cage.
(d) Who the poor man is.

4. For whom is seeing the hunger artist a special treat?
(a) The elderly.
(b) Animals.
(c) Children.
(d) Women.

5. What would the children do "for greater security" while watching the artist?
(a) Run away.
(b) Hide their eyes.
(c) Hide behind their mothers.
(d) Hold each others' hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who pays for the breakfast brought to the watchers?

2. What cannot hold out against the fact that the crowds are on their way only to the menagerie?

3. Contrary to people's regard, the hunger artist states that he could do what if given the opportunity at the circus?

4. What surrounds the artist's cage at the circus?

5. Why is the limit set on the artist's fasts?

(see the answer key)

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