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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the results of the fast announced?
(a) By megaphone.
(b) By radio.
(c) By microphone.
(d) By television.

2. What is the point of view of "A Hunger Artist"?
(a) Second person.
(b) Fourth person.
(c) Third person.
(d) First person.

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

4. Why is the limit set on the artist's fasts?
(a) The audience loses interest after that time.
(b) The artist would collapse.
(c) The artist refuses to keep going.
(d) The artist would die.

5. How has the artist never yet left his cage at the end of a fast?
(a) Joyfully.
(b) Sadly.
(c) On his feet.
(d) Of his free will.

6. The interest of the public is stimulated by a steadily increasing pressure of what?
(a) Advertisement.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Guilt.

7. Those who are not content with the dim night lighting of the hall focused the artist in the full glare of what?
(a) A neon bulb.
(b) A candle.
(c) An electric pocket torch.
(d) A bright spotlight.

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

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

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

11. With what does the artist answer questions?
(a) A joyful reverence.
(b) A great smile.
(c) A laugh.
(d) A constrained smile.

12. How many doctors enter the cage to measure the results of the fast?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

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

14. On fine days, where is the cage set?
(a) Outside.
(b) In the garden.
(c) On a roof.
(d) By the butterfly cages.

15. 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 few days of the fast.
(d) The last month of the fast.

Short Answer Questions

1. The hunger artist is never what?

2. Who could watch the hunger artist continuously, day and night?

3. The permanent watchers are a formality to reassure whom?

4. For whom is the hunger artist often just a joke that happens to be in fashion?

5. Who is bound to be the sole, completely satisfied spectator of the artist's fast?

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