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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

6. Of the two factions who fight around the artist's cage, which does he grow to dislike more?
(a) The ones who want past.
(b) The ones who want to stop and stare.
(c) The ones who want to feed him.
(d) The ones who fight for the better view.

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What incomprehensible boast of the artist's does the impresario mention to the public?

3. "At first he could hardly wait for the _____; it was exhilarating to watch the crowds come streaming his way."

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

5. How is the artist's performance affected by his advancing age?

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