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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. When the watchers are invited to take on a night's vigil without a breakfast, what do they do?
(a) Insist on money.
(b) Get angry.
(c) Lie about the artist.
(d) Make themselves scarce.

2. What does the impresario secretly do to the hunger artist as he lifts him?
(a) Stab him.
(b) Kick him.
(c) Shakes him.
(d) Bite him.

3. On fine days, where is the cage set?
(a) In the garden.
(b) By the butterfly cages.
(c) Outside.
(d) On a roof.

4. Who appears, blissful at having been selected for the honor, to help the artist down?
(a) Two men.
(b) One mother.
(c) Two women.
(d) Three children.

5. How many of the permanent watchers are there at a given time?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the limit of the artist's fast set to be?

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

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

4. Who lends the watchers the bright light to focus on the artist?

5. How are the results of the fast announced?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What has happened to the interest in fasting at the beginning of the story? How has this affected the artist?

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

4. How does the artist feel about the breakfast served to the spectators? What is suspected about this by others?

5. What causes the hunger artist and the impresario to part ways?

6. Is the artist satisfied with his fasts? Why or why not?

7. What does the artist do when given the hands of those helping him out of the cage?

8. What does the artist realize toward the end of the story in terms of his performance at the circus? How does he react to this?

9. What about the cage's placement at the circus further lowers the artist's spirit?

10. What do the handlers of the artist inevitably do when helping him from the cage?

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