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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. What incomprehensible boast of the artist's does the impresario mention to the public?
(a) That he wants a wife.
(b) That he could fast longer.
(c) That he is hungry.
(d) That he wants freedom.

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

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

8. Why is the artist's troubled spirit all the more troubled?
(a) His utter loneliness.
(b) For constant hunger.
(c) No one takes his trouble seriously.
(d) His lack of money.

9. Who would burst into tears at the release of the artist?
(a) The woman holding him up.
(b) The artist.
(c) The entire audience.
(d) The impresario.

10. What does the artist do when the photographs are produced?
(a) Shake the bars.
(b) Weep loudly.
(c) Accuse the impresario of lying.
(d) Sink into the straw.

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

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

13. Who can hardly understand the artist's temperament, according to the impresario?
(a) Women.
(b) Well-fed people.
(c) Animals.
(d) The impresario.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, it is not only the artist that is taken on but what as well?

2. When the hordes came pouring out to see the _____, they can hardly avoid passing the artist's cage.

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

4. When the weight of the protagonist lands on one of the ladies, she finds "this post of honor was not at all _______."

5. Why does the impresario suggest the artist's behavior is to be excused?

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