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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 the artist's cage bedecked with at the end of his fast?
(a) Gifts.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Torches.
(d) Food.

2. What lights the stage of the artist at night?
(a) Lamps.
(b) Candles.
(c) Torch flares.
(d) A spotlight.

3. How many doctors enter the cage to measure the results of the fast?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

4. The interest of the public is stimulated by a steadily increasing pressure of what?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Advertisement.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Guilt.

5. How has the artist never yet left his cage at the end of a fast?
(a) Of his free will.
(b) On his feet.
(c) Joyfully.
(d) Sadly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would the hunger artist do to prove he wasn't eating?

2. What does the hunger artist alone know?

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

4. For whom is the hunger artist often just a joke that happens to be in fashion?

5. What does the artist stubbornly refuse to do at the last moment of his fast?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the artist experience of the audience at the circus?

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

4. 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?

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

6. What is one way to view the artist's suffering negatively?

7. What does the artist recollect about the old days in contrast to now?

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

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

10. How long is the fast and why is it this fixed time?

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