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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the impresario suggest the artist's behavior is to be excused?
(a) His need of sleep.
(b) His god-like purity.
(c) Irritability due to fasting.
(d) His dampened spirit.

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

4. What does the impresario claim to praise of the artist to the public?
(a) His godliness.
(b) His ignorance.
(c) His dedication.
(d) His ambition.

5. 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.

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

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

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

9. What does the artist do when someone would suggest his melancholy is probably caused by his fasting?
(a) Call to the heavens.
(b) Weep endlessly.
(c) Laugh at them.
(d) Break into an outburst of fury.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What always unnerves the artist and proves too much for him?

2. The passing father might tell his children of "earlier years when he had watched similar but ___________ performances."

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

4. What literary device is used in this sentence: "He was at once deafened by the storm of shouting."

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

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