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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who appears, blissful at having been selected for the honor, to help the artist down?
(a) Two women.
(b) Two men.
(c) One mother.
(d) Three children.

2. What lights the stage of the artist at night?
(a) Torch flares.
(b) Lamps.
(c) A spotlight.
(d) Candles.

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

4. What does the hunger artist alone know?
(a) How proud he's become.
(b) How difficult it is to fast.
(c) How lonely he is.
(d) How easy it is to fast.

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

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

7. In the prime days of the hunger artist, how often did people want to see him?
(a) Once a month.
(b) Once every hour.
(c) Once a week.
(d) Once a day.

8. What sticks out prominently on the artist?
(a) His knuckles.
(b) His jaw.
(c) His cheekbones.
(d) His ribs.

9. Who pays for the breakfast brought to the watchers?
(a) The musicians.
(b) The mayor.
(c) The artist.
(d) The impresario.

10. What does the hunger artist wear?
(a) A loin cloth.
(b) Black tights.
(c) A turtleneck.
(d) A cloth rag.

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

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

13. What does the artist tell stories of with his watchers?
(a) His joy.
(b) His nomadic life.
(c) His hunger.
(d) His craft.

14. What does the hunger artist always feel he is being cheated from doing?
(a) Beating his own record.
(b) Beating his rival's record.
(c) Becoming a martyr.
(d) Eating.

15. Where does the hunger artist perform?
(a) A glass cage.
(b) A barred cage.
(c) A stage.
(d) A wagon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who lends the watchers the bright light to focus on the artist?

3. How has the artist never yet left his cage at the end of a fast?

4. When the watchers are invited to take on a night's vigil without a breakfast, what do they do?

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

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