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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the artist do when someone would suggest his melancholy is probably caused by his fasting?
(a) Call to the heavens.
(b) Break into an outburst of fury.
(c) Laugh at them.
(d) Weep endlessly.

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

4. Why does the hunger artist avoid reading the contract?
(a) Because he couldn't read.
(b) Because he had no manager.
(c) To save himself money.
(d) To spare his own feelings.

5. What is the rare stroke of luck the artist encounters at the circus?
(a) An animal is freed.
(b) A poor soul drops him bread.
(c) A father stops with his children.
(d) He is fed.

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

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

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

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

10. Where does the impresario hurry the artist to discover where interest might lay?
(a) To America.
(b) To Asia.
(c) To Africa.
(d) All over Europe.

11. Where could the hunger artist barely show himself?
(a) The circus.
(b) Village fairs.
(c) Taverns.
(d) School shows.

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

13. "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) Museum.
(c) Vaudeville show.
(d) Fair.

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

15. According to the narrator, it is not only the artist that is taken on but what as well?
(a) His famous name.
(b) His strength.
(c) His martyrdom.
(d) His impresario.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the passersby going when passing the artist's cage at the circus?

2. When the great rush is past, who comes along the cage at the circus?

3. What, in his zeal, does the hunger artist conveniently forget in talking to the circus professionals?

4. Who takes leave of the impresario?

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

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