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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who takes leave of the impresario?
(a) The midwife.
(b) The hunger artist.
(c) The musician.
(d) The beggar.

3. What always unnerves the artist and proves too much for him?
(a) The audience's whispering.
(b) The impresario's presence.
(c) The impresario's perversion of the truth.
(d) The undying hunger.

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

5. What does the artist do, causing general alarm, in his rages?
(a) Scream a piercing scream.
(b) Cry hysterically.
(c) Beat himself with a stick.
(d) Shake the bars like a wild animal.

6. People might have stayed longer at the artist's cage at the circus but for what?
(a) The screaming of the children.
(b) The lack of a manager.
(c) The crowds on the gangway.
(d) The money necessary.

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

8. Time and time again in good faith the artist stands by the bars doing what?
(a) Feeling in agony.
(b) Listening to the impresario.
(c) Screaming madly.
(d) Crying like a child.

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

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

11. What does the impresario sell to the audience?
(a) Sandwiches.
(b) Stencils.
(c) Autographs.
(d) Photographs.

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

13. Those who want to stare at the artist at the circus do so not out of interest, but out of what?
(a) Stubborn desire.
(b) Leering loathing.
(c) Obstinate self-assertiveness.
(d) Seething self-righteousness.

14. What cannot hold out against the fact that the crowds are on their way only to the menagerie?
(a) Manic necessity.
(b) Obstinate self-deception.
(c) Desperate facade.
(d) Innate unknowing.

15. "Those, whom nothing could have prevented from stopping to look at him ________, raced past with long strides."
(a) For their children's sake.
(b) As long as they had breath.
(c) For the artist's sake.
(d) If they so wanted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will surely come into fashion at a later date?

2. Why is the artist's troubled spirit all the more troubled?

3. From what day of the fast are the photographs taken?

4. To whom does the hunger artist hire himself out?

5. What is one reason the hunger artist cannot adopt another profession?

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