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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the impresario suggest the artist's behavior is to be excused?
(a) His dampened spirit.
(b) Irritability due to fasting.
(c) His need of sleep.
(d) His god-like purity.

2. "Those, whom nothing could have prevented from stopping to look at him ________, raced past with long strides."
(a) If they so wanted.
(b) For the artist's sake.
(c) As long as they had breath.
(d) For their children's sake.

3. When the weight of the protagonist lands on one of the ladies, she finds "this post of honor was not at all _______."
(a) A post of honor.
(b) A delight.
(c) What she expected it to be.
(d) A saintly gesture.

4. What does the artist do when someone would suggest his melancholy is probably caused by his fasting?
(a) Weep endlessly.
(b) Break into an outburst of fury.
(c) Laugh at them.
(d) Call to the heavens.

5. What cannot hold out against the fact that the crowds are on their way only to the menagerie?
(a) Innate unknowing.
(b) Manic necessity.
(c) Desperate facade.
(d) Obstinate self-deception.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the artist do, causing general alarm, in his rages?

2. Who takes leave of the impresario?

3. What will surely come into fashion at a later date?

4. Who would burst into tears at the release of the artist?

5. "A large _____ with its enormous traffic in replacing and recruiting men, animals and apparatus can always find use for people at any time."

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