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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 cards.
(b) Drink.
(c) Play dice.
(d) Eat.

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

3. The ladies who help the artist down are apparently so friendly and in reality are so what?
(a) Evil.
(b) Afraid.
(c) Cruel.
(d) Derisive.

4. With what does the artist answer questions?
(a) A constrained smile.
(b) A joyful reverence.
(c) A great smile.
(d) A laugh.

5. What does the artist hold outside the bars from time to time?
(a) His arm.
(b) A stick.
(c) His legs.
(d) His head.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lights the stage of the artist at night?

2. What does the hunger artist alone know?

3. Where does the hunger artist perform?

4. Who appears, blissful at having been selected for the honor, to help the artist down?

5. Who could watch the hunger artist continuously, day and night?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the author imply in his description of the audience's reaction to the panther?

3. What are the religious allusions?

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

5. How does the impresario wrap up his sympathy routines in Part 2?

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

7. What is the artist's point of view regarding the impresario's excuses? What is his view of the audience reaction?

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

10. 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?

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