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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 would the lax watchers do in a huddled corner?
(a) Play dice.
(b) Play cards.
(c) Drink.
(d) Eat.

2. What does the hunger artist make no secret of, yet others don't believe him?
(a) That he isn't hungry.
(b) That he is starving.
(c) That fasting is easy.
(d) That fasting is difficult.

3. What sticks out prominently on the artist?
(a) His jaw.
(b) His knuckles.
(c) His ribs.
(d) His cheekbones.

4. What does the artist tell stories of with his watchers?
(a) His hunger.
(b) His craft.
(c) His nomadic life.
(d) His joy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "There were people who argued that this breakfast was an unfair attempt" to do what?

2. Who selects the permanent watchers?

3. What does the hunger artist alone know?

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

5. The narrator writes that "during these last _____ an interest in professional fasting has diminished."

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the artist's situation "absurd" in "A Hunger Artist"?

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

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

4. How does the artist react to those who believe him to be "cheating"?

5. What spectacle is there when the fast is over?

6. How does the artist feel about the world when he dies?

7. What spectators does the artist prefer? What do these spectators do?

8. What could be said in terms of the artist as a martyr? What differing definitions are there of this term and how do they apply?

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

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

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