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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. Who could watch the hunger artist continuously, day and night?
(a) The reporter.
(b) The cameras.
(c) No one.
(d) The impresario.

2. Who pays for the breakfast brought to the watchers?
(a) The musicians.
(b) The impresario.
(c) The artist.
(d) The mayor.

3. Who is bound to be the sole, completely satisfied spectator of the artist's fast?
(a) The musician.
(b) The child.
(c) The artist.
(d) The impresario.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For whom is seeing the hunger artist a special treat?

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

4. Who are the permanent watchers, usually?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who discovers the artist in his cage in the end of the story? What does the hunger artist say?

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

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

6. 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?

7. What is the negative side of the hunger artist's art and of art in general?

8. How does the audience's lack of understanding affect the artist?

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

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

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