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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 children do "for greater security" while watching the artist?
(a) Hide behind their mothers.
(b) Hide their eyes.
(c) Run away.
(d) Hold each others' hands.

2. The narrator writes that "during these last _____ an interest in professional fasting has diminished."
(a) Months.
(b) Decades.
(c) Years.
(d) Centuries.

3. What type of band plays the last day of the fast?
(a) A gypsy band.
(b) A string quartet.
(c) A local orchestra.
(d) A military band.

4. The hunger artist is never what?
(a) Grateful.
(b) Full.
(c) Unhappy.
(d) Satisfied.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the artist's cage bedecked with at the end of his fast?

2. What does the impresario secretly do to the hunger artist as he lifts him?

3. What is the artist's manager called?

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

5. Who are the permanent watchers, usually?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the artist's final words contradict his behavior?

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

3. Why doesn't the artist complain to the management at the circus?

4. Describe the impresario. What are the objectives of this character?

5. What are the religious allusions?

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

7. What are some examples of simile and metaphor in Part 2?

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

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

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

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