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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of band plays the last day of the fast?
(a) A local orchestra.
(b) A string quartet.
(c) A military band.
(d) A gypsy band.

2. When the watchers are invited to take on a night's vigil without a breakfast, what do they do?
(a) Make themselves scarce.
(b) Insist on money.
(c) Get angry.
(d) Lie about the artist.

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

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

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

6. 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.

7. Who lends the watchers the bright light to focus on the artist?
(a) The artist.
(b) The kaiser.
(c) The musician.
(d) The impresario.

8. Who selects the permanent watchers?
(a) The artist.
(b) The mayor.
(c) The manager.
(d) The public.

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

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

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

12. What would the hunger artist do to prove he wasn't eating?
(a) Sing.
(b) Dance.
(c) Cough.
(d) Cry.

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

14. In what tense is "A Hunger Artist" written?
(a) Past.
(b) Present.
(c) Future perfect.
(d) Future.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the results of the fast announced?

2. What does the impresario secretly do to the hunger artist as he lifts him?

3. The hunger artist is never what?

4. What does the artist drink every now and again?

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

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