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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sight of the crowds remain the best to the artist at the circus?
(a) The first sight in the distance.
(b) The sight of their tears.
(c) The sight as they left.
(d) The sight of them peering close.

2. When the hordes came pouring out to see the _____, they can hardly avoid passing the artist's cage.
(a) Clowns.
(b) Animals.
(c) Parachutists.
(d) Monkeys.

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

4. What is the hunger artist stationed next to at the circus?
(a) The tightropes.
(b) The animal cages.
(c) The freak show.
(d) The trampoline.

5. "The pampered hunger artist suddenly found himself deserted one day by the _____________."
(a) Butchers.
(b) Impresario.
(c) Musicians.
(d) Amusement seekers.

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

7. What is the rare stroke of luck the artist encounters at the circus?
(a) A poor soul drops him bread.
(b) He is fed.
(c) An animal is freed.
(d) A father stops with his children.

8. What do the stragglers do when passing the artist's cage in the circus?
(a) Hardly glance at him.
(b) Wait for him to talk.
(c) Stand a long time.
(d) Give him money.

9. To fight against this lack of understanding to the audience and others is what?
(a) Insatiable.
(b) Enraging.
(c) Impossible.
(d) Engaging.

10. According to the narrator, it is not only the artist that is taken on but what as well?
(a) His famous name.
(b) His strength.
(c) His impresario.
(d) His martyrdom.

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

12. Contrary to people's regard, the hunger artist states that he could do what if given the opportunity at the circus?
(a) Walk on fire.
(b) Quit starving.
(c) Establish a record never yet achieved.
(d) Learn to walk the tightrope.

13. Where are the passersby going when passing the artist's cage at the circus?
(a) The panther cage.
(b) The main ring.
(c) The menagerie.
(d) The circus tent.

14. What does the artist, who has longed for these audience viewings at the circus, come to do?
(a) Ask for money.
(b) Shrink from them.
(c) Ask to be freed.
(d) Want them more and more.

15. How does the impresario feel about his method of punishments?
(a) He longs for it.
(b) He feels obligated.
(c) He enjoys it.
(d) He hates it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the artist do when someone would suggest his melancholy is probably caused by his fasting?

2. Why does the hunger artist avoid reading the contract?

3. What, in his zeal, does the hunger artist conveniently forget in talking to the circus professionals?

4. "What was a _______ of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it!"

5. Where could the hunger artist barely show himself?

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