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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 more desperate.
(b) It is not impaired.
(c) It is more difficult.
(d) It is easier.

2. Time and time again in good faith the artist stands by the bars doing what?
(a) Screaming madly.
(b) Listening to the impresario.
(c) Feeling in agony.
(d) Crying like a child.

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

4. When the weight of the protagonist lands on one of the ladies, she finds "this post of honor was not at all _______."
(a) A delight.
(b) What she expected it to be.
(c) A post of honor.
(d) A saintly gesture.

5. What incomprehensible boast of the artist's does the impresario mention to the public?
(a) That he could fast longer.
(b) That he wants freedom.
(c) That he is hungry.
(d) That he wants a wife.

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

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

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

9. "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) Vaudeville show.
(d) Museum.

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

11. What do the stragglers do when passing the artist's cage in the circus?
(a) Give him money.
(b) Hardly glance at him.
(c) Stand a long time.
(d) Wait for him to talk.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the artist, who has longed for these audience viewings at the circus, come to do?

2. What cannot hold out against the fact that the crowds are on their way only to the menagerie?

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

4. Who can hardly understand the artist's temperament, according to the impresario?

5. From what day of the fast are the photographs taken?

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