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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the artist's cage bedecked with at the end of his fast?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Gifts.
(c) Torches.
(d) Food.

2. What is the artist's manager called?
(a) The voltar.
(b) The impresario.
(c) The kaiser.
(d) The heife.

3. What does the impresario secretly do to the hunger artist as he lifts him?
(a) Stab him.
(b) Shakes him.
(c) Kick him.
(d) Bite him.

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

5. For whom is the hunger artist often just a joke that happens to be in fashion?
(a) The children.
(b) The elders.
(c) The priests.
(d) The women.

6. What is the only item of furniture in the cage?
(a) A desk.
(b) A chair.
(c) A bed.
(d) A clock.

7. Who are the permanent watchers, usually?
(a) Mothers.
(b) Candy salesmen.
(c) Priests.
(d) Butchers.

8. How many of the permanent watchers are there at a given time?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

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

10. Who could produce first-hand evidence that the fast has really been rigorous and continuous?
(a) The impresario.
(b) The watchers.
(c) The musicians.
(d) The artist.

11. Who sets the limit on the artist's fasts?
(a) The impresario.
(b) The maestro.
(c) The artist's father.
(d) The artist.

12. Who could watch the hunger artist continuously, day and night?
(a) The cameras.
(b) The reporter.
(c) The impresario.
(d) No one.

13. When would people buy season tickets for the artist's performance?
(a) The entire fast.
(b) The first days of the fast.
(c) The last month of the fast.
(d) The last few days of the fast.

14. What is the cushioning on the hunger artist's stage?
(a) Feathers.
(b) Straw.
(c) Mats.
(d) Pillows.

15. According to the narrator, how did it used to pay very well to stage such performances?
(a) Under one's own management.
(b) In the circus.
(c) In the theater.
(d) In the town square.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do most of the watchers think the artist is looking for?

2. How many doctors enter the cage to measure the results of the fast?

3. Why do many people regretfully have to keep away from his exhibitions?

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

5. What does the hunger artist always feel he is being cheated from doing?

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