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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What literary device is used in this sentence: "He was at once deafened by the storm of shouting."
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Irony.
(d) Symbolism.

9. Where, in regard to the ring, is the artist stationed?
(a) Front and center.
(b) Outside.
(c) In the middle.
(d) Behind.

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

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

12. What will surely come into fashion at a later date?
(a) Bear-baiting.
(b) Trapeze artists.
(c) Hunger strikes.
(d) Fasting.

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

14. "At first he could hardly wait for the _____; it was exhilarating to watch the crowds come streaming his way."
(a) Intervals.
(b) Rush hour.
(c) Storm.
(d) Stampede.

15. What, in his zeal, does the hunger artist conveniently forget in talking to the circus professionals?
(a) The money issue.
(b) The change in public opinion.
(c) The manager.
(d) The need for a stage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who supposedly orders the toast?

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

3. What sight of the crowds remain the best to the artist at the circus?

4. Under what circumstances does the circus make use of the hunger artist?

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

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