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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 are the results of the fast announced?
(a) By microphone.
(b) By radio.
(c) By television.
(d) By megaphone.

2. What does the artist drink every now and again?
(a) Mead.
(b) Milk.
(c) Water.
(d) Wine.

3. What is the only item of furniture in the cage?
(a) A clock.
(b) A bed.
(c) A desk.
(d) A chair.

4. What does the hunger artist make no secret of, yet others don't believe him?
(a) That he isn't hungry.
(b) That he is starving.
(c) That fasting is difficult.
(d) That fasting is easy.

5. Why is the limit set on the artist's fasts?
(a) The audience loses interest after that time.
(b) The artist would die.
(c) The artist would collapse.
(d) The artist refuses to keep going.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do most of the watchers think the artist is looking for?

2. For whom is the hunger artist often just a joke that happens to be in fashion?

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

4. Which watchers are more to the taste of the hunger artist?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the artist realize about people knowing the truth of his fasts?

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

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

5. Describe the hunger artist. What does he look like? What does he wear?

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

7. What are the religious allusions?

8. How is the artist an exhibitionist versus an inhibitionist?

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

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

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