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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the impresario sell to the audience?
(a) Photographs.
(b) Sandwiches.
(c) Stencils.
(d) Autographs.

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

4. Where are the passersby going when passing the artist's cage at the circus?
(a) The menagerie.
(b) The circus tent.
(c) The main ring.
(d) The panther cage.

5. Under what circumstances does the circus make use of the hunger artist?
(a) He is not paid.
(b) He behaves.
(c) He doesn't ask much.
(d) He feeds the animals.

6. By how many has the hunger artist been applauded in his time?
(a) Gazillions.
(b) Millions.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) Thousands.

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

8. When the great rush is past, who comes along the cage at the circus?
(a) The stragglers.
(b) The clowns.
(c) The animals.
(d) The handlers.

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

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

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

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

13. From what day of the fast are the photographs taken?
(a) The first.
(b) The fortieth.
(c) The seventh.
(d) The fifteenth.

14. To what is a toast drunk after the artist is released?
(a) The public.
(b) The artist.
(c) The women.
(d) The impresario.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where, in regard to the ring, is the artist stationed?

2. What is one reason the hunger artist cannot adopt another profession?

3. Who supposedly orders the toast?

4. How does the impresario feel about his method of punishments?

5. Of the two factions who fight around the artist's cage, which does he grow to dislike more?

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