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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. People might have stayed longer at the artist's cage at the circus but for what?
(a) The lack of a manager.
(b) The crowds on the gangway.
(c) The money necessary.
(d) The screaming of the children.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What do the audiences do once the artist collapses into the straw with a groan?
(a) Run away.
(b) Press close to gaze at him.
(c) Weep loudly.
(d) Applaud.

Short Answer Questions

1. What faction fights against those who want to look at the artist at the circus?

2. By how many has the hunger artist been applauded in his time?

3. Where does the impresario hurry the artist to discover where interest might lay?

4. Who would burst into tears at the release of the artist?

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

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