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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is one reason the hunger artist cannot adopt another profession?
(a) He is too poor.
(b) He is too old.
(c) He can't read.
(d) He is unskilled.

3. 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) Stubborn desire.
(c) Leering loathing.
(d) Seething self-righteousness.

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

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

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

7. What faction fights against those who want to look at the artist at the circus?
(a) Those who want a better view.
(b) Those who want to kill him.
(c) Those who want past to the animals.
(d) Those who manage him.

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

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

10. Everywhere, "as if by secret agreement, a positive ______ from professional fasting was in evidence."
(a) Interest.
(b) Distaste.
(c) Revulsion.
(d) Propulsion.

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

12. The passing father might tell his children of "earlier years when he had watched similar but ___________ performances."
(a) More excruciating.
(b) More barbaric.
(c) Much more thrilling.
(d) Sadder.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom does the hunger artist hire himself out?

3. Where could the hunger artist barely show himself?

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

5. What surrounds the artist's cage at the circus?

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