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

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

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

4. Who sets the limit on the artist's fasts?
(a) The artist's father.
(b) The artist.
(c) The maestro.
(d) The impresario.

5. What does the hunger artist wear?
(a) A loin cloth.
(b) A cloth rag.
(c) A turtleneck.
(d) Black tights.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has the artist never yet left his cage at the end of a fast?

2. How long is the limit of the artist's fast set to be?

3. At the best, the audience sets the artist down as what?

4. What would the children do "for greater security" while watching the artist?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who helps the artist from his cage?

2. What is the grand finale of the spectacle at the end of the fast?

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

4. What does the artist "do" in the cage? What is his interaction with the audience?

5. What happens at the circus regarding the record of days the artist has spent fasting?

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

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

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

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

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

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