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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a necessary accompaniment to the profession of fasting?
(a) Suspicion.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Rudeness.
(d) Anger.

2. What do most of the watchers think the artist is looking for?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Publicity.
(c) Money.
(d) Martyrdom.

3. In the prime days of the hunger artist, how often did people want to see him?
(a) Once every hour.
(b) Once a week.
(c) Once a day.
(d) Once a month.

4. "There were people who argued that this breakfast was an unfair attempt" to do what?
(a) Prove his humility.
(b) Humiliate the watchers.
(c) Bribe the watchers.
(d) Poison the watchers.

5. Why is the limit set on the artist's fasts?
(a) The artist would collapse.
(b) The audience loses interest after that time.
(c) The artist would die.
(d) The artist refuses to keep going.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would the lax watchers do in a huddled corner?

2. What does the artist hold outside the bars from time to time?

3. The artist's inner what is always rankled?

4. What is the only item of furniture in the cage?

5. Which watchers are more to the taste of the hunger artist?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the major contrast between the circus and the artist's previous days working solo?

2. What does the artist "do" in the cage? What is his interaction with the audience?

3. Where do the artist and impresario travel in Part 2 and why?

4. What might the hunger artist's explanation refer to regarding the author?

5. What changes in terms of the artist's limitations in Part 2?

6. Describe briefly which of the three allegorical interpretations discussed in class with which you most agree.

7. What does the artist realize about people knowing the truth of his fasts?

8. What does the artist tell his watchers regarding the ease or difficulty of his fasting? What do they respond?

9. What is the symbiotic relationship between the artist and his audience? How does this frustrate him?

10. How is the artist an exhibitionist versus an inhibitionist?

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