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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is the limit of the artist's fast set to be?
(a) Forty days.
(b) Four months.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) Four weeks.

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

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

4. The artist's inner what is always rankled?
(a) Desperation.
(b) Dissatisfaction.
(c) Rage.
(d) Hunger.

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

6. What does the artist drink every now and again?
(a) Mead.
(b) Wine.
(c) Milk.
(d) Water.

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

8. Who is bound to be the sole, completely satisfied spectator of the artist's fast?
(a) The artist.
(b) The musician.
(c) The child.
(d) The impresario.

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

10. The ladies who help the artist down are apparently so friendly and in reality are so what?
(a) Afraid.
(b) Derisive.
(c) Cruel.
(d) Evil.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The interest of the public is stimulated by a steadily increasing pressure of what?

3. What would the lax watchers do in a huddled corner?

4. Who could produce first-hand evidence that the fast has really been rigorous and continuous?

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

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