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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. How long is the limit of the artist's fast set to be?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Forty days.
(c) Four months.
(d) Four weeks.

2. What does the hunger artist alone know?
(a) How proud he's become.
(b) How easy it is to fast.
(c) How difficult it is to fast.
(d) How lonely he is.

3. What is the point of view of "A Hunger Artist"?
(a) Fourth person.
(b) Second person.
(c) First person.
(d) Third person.

4. Why do many people regretfully have to keep away from his exhibitions?
(a) The sight of him is too much.
(b) They are worried for his health.
(c) They can't afford it.
(d) They want his fasts to last longer.

5. According to the narrator, how did it used to pay very well to stage such performances?
(a) In the theater.
(b) In the circus.
(c) In the town square.
(d) Under one's own management.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the prime days of the hunger artist, how often did people want to see him?

2. With what does the artist answer questions?

3. The permanent watchers are a formality to reassure whom?

4. What is a necessary accompaniment to the profession of fasting?

5. The ladies who help the artist down are apparently so friendly and in reality are so what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who are the "permanent watchers" and what do they do?

4. What does the artist think of the impresario's claims that the artist's melancholy is a result of the fasts?

5. What is one way to view the artist's suffering negatively?

6. What does the artist do when given the hands of those helping him out of the cage?

7. Why doesn't the artist quit his profession when interest dwindles? What does he do instead?

8. What about the cage's placement at the circus further lowers the artist's spirit?

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

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

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