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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 impresario's presence.
(d) The undying hunger.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Of the two factions who fight around the artist's cage, which does he grow to dislike more?
(a) The ones who want to stop and stare.
(b) The ones who fight for the better view.
(c) The ones who want past.
(d) The ones who want to feed him.

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

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

13. Those who want to stare at the artist at the circus do so not out of interest, but out of what?
(a) Stubborn desire.
(b) Leering loathing.
(c) Seething self-righteousness.
(d) Obstinate self-assertiveness.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the hunger artist avoid reading the contract?

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

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

5. Under what circumstances does the circus make use of the hunger artist?

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