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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the lack of interest of the public seem to take hold?
(a) Gradually over years.
(b) As the radio is introduced.
(c) As the tightrope walkers enter.
(d) Almost overnight.

2. Why does the hunger artist avoid reading the contract?
(a) To save himself money.
(b) Because he had no manager.
(c) To spare his own feelings.
(d) Because he couldn't read.

3. To whom does the hunger artist hire himself out?
(a) A museum.
(b) A large circus.
(c) A local fair.
(d) An art gallery.

4. What does a passing father occasionally stop and point out to his children?
(a) What the phenomenon means.
(b) Why he is in a cage.
(c) What happens if they don't eat.
(d) Who the poor man is.

5. What does the impresario bring out to show the audience?
(a) Souvenir post cards.
(b) Photographs of the artist eating.
(c) Photographs of the healthy artist.
(d) Photographs of the nearly dead artist.

6. How does the impresario punish the artist's rages?
(a) Scream at the artist.
(b) Apologize publically.
(c) Feed the artist.
(d) Beat the artist.

7. "A large _____ with its enormous traffic in replacing and recruiting men, animals and apparatus can always find use for people at any time."
(a) Circus.
(b) Fair.
(c) Vaudeville show.
(d) Museum.

8. How is the artist's performance affected by his advancing age?
(a) It is more difficult.
(b) It is more desperate.
(c) It is not impaired.
(d) It is easier.

9. Everywhere, "as if by secret agreement, a positive ______ from professional fasting was in evidence."
(a) Revulsion.
(b) Interest.
(c) Propulsion.
(d) Distaste.

10. When the weight of the protagonist lands on one of the ladies, she finds "this post of honor was not at all _______."
(a) What she expected it to be.
(b) A delight.
(c) A post of honor.
(d) A saintly gesture.

11. From what day of the fast are the photographs taken?
(a) The first.
(b) The seventh.
(c) The fortieth.
(d) The fifteenth.

12. Where, in regard to the ring, is the artist stationed?
(a) Front and center.
(b) In the middle.
(c) Behind.
(d) Outside.

13. What is one reason the hunger artist cannot adopt another profession?
(a) He is unskilled.
(b) He is too old.
(c) He can't read.
(d) He is too poor.

14. How long does the artist carry on in this way, with small intervals of recuperation?
(a) One year.
(b) Many years.
(c) Six months.
(d) Three years.

15. To what is a toast drunk after the artist is released?
(a) The women.
(b) The public.
(c) The impresario.
(d) The artist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the impresario hurry the artist to discover where interest might lay?

2. Those who want to stare at the artist at the circus do so not out of interest, but out of what?

3. Who would burst into tears at the release of the artist?

4. Who takes leave of the impresario?

5. To fight against this lack of understanding to the audience and others is what?

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