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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. "There were people who argued that this breakfast was an unfair attempt" to do what?
(a) Humiliate the watchers.
(b) Bribe the watchers.
(c) Prove his humility.
(d) Poison the watchers.

2. What would the lax watchers do in a huddled corner?
(a) Eat.
(b) Drink.
(c) Play dice.
(d) Play cards.

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

4. Where does the hunger artist perform?
(a) A glass cage.
(b) A stage.
(c) A barred cage.
(d) A wagon.

5. What is the artist's manager called?
(a) The impresario.
(b) The voltar.
(c) The kaiser.
(d) The heife.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the hunger artist wear?

3. Who pays for the breakfast brought to the watchers?

4. The artist's inner what is always rankled?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the reactions of those who do stop at the circus?

3. What elements of symbolism are used in Part 2?

4. What are the distractions of being near the animals at the circus? How does this affect the artist?

5. What does the artist do when sympathetic souls suggest his fast causes his melancholy? How does the impresario deal with him then?

6. Who helps the artist from his cage?

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

8. What does the artist think of his repast? What does the impresario do to prove the artist's heroism?

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

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

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