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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Establish a record never yet achieved.
(c) Quit starving.
(d) Learn to walk the tightrope.

3. Who supposedly orders the toast?
(a) The kaiser.
(b) The impresario.
(c) The artist.
(d) The priest.

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

5. Where does the impresario hurry the artist to discover where interest might lay?
(a) To America.
(b) All over Europe.
(c) To Africa.
(d) To Asia.

6. What faction fights against those who want to look at the artist at the circus?
(a) Those who want past to the animals.
(b) Those who want a better view.
(c) Those who want to kill him.
(d) Those who manage him.

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

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

9. 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.

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

11. Where could the hunger artist barely show himself?
(a) Taverns.
(b) The circus.
(c) Village fairs.
(d) School shows.

12. What surrounds the artist's cage at the circus?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Dolls.
(c) Bright placards.
(d) Trees.

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

14. "What was a _______ of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it!"
(a) Result.
(b) Gallantry.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Consequence.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the artist do when the photographs are produced?

4. How does the impresario punish the artist's rages?

5. Who takes leave of the impresario?

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