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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. The artist's inner what is always rankled?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Desperation.
(c) Dissatisfaction.
(d) Rage.
2. For whom is seeing the hunger artist a special treat?
(a) Women.
(b) Animals.
(c) Children.
(d) The elderly.
3. When would people buy season tickets for the artist's performance?
(a) The last few days of the fast.
(b) The entire fast.
(c) The first days of the fast.
(d) The last month of the fast.
4. Who lends the watchers the bright light to focus on the artist?
(a) The kaiser.
(b) The impresario.
(c) The musician.
(d) The artist.
5. What does the hunger artist alone know?
(a) How proud he's become.
(b) How lonely he is.
(c) How difficult it is to fast.
(d) How easy it is to fast.
Short Answer Questions
1. The permanent watchers are a formality to reassure whom?
2. What is a necessary accompaniment to the profession of fasting?
3. What does the artist tell stories of with his watchers?
4. What does the impresario secretly do to the hunger artist as he lifts him?
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 respond when the attendant tells him they have admired his fasting? What happens after he dies?
2. What might the hunger artist's explanation refer to regarding the author?
3. Who are the "permanent watchers" and what do they do?
4. Who is paralleled to the hunger artist and why?
5. What are the reactions of those who do stop at the circus?
6. What does the artist tell his watchers regarding the ease or difficulty of his fasting? What do they respond?
7. Who helps the artist from his cage?
8. Where is the artist's cage placed in the circus? What is the description of it?
9. What does the artist "do" in the cage? What is his interaction with the audience?
10. What are some examples of simile and metaphor in Part 2?
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