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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "A large _____ with its enormous traffic in replacing and recruiting men, animals and apparatus can always find use for people at any time."
(a) Fair.
(b) Museum.
(c) Vaudeville show.
(d) Circus.

2. What does the artist do when the photographs are produced?
(a) Accuse the impresario of lying.
(b) Shake the bars.
(c) Sink into the straw.
(d) Weep loudly.

3. What do the audiences do once the artist collapses into the straw with a groan?
(a) Weep loudly.
(b) Press close to gaze at him.
(c) Applaud.
(d) Run away.

4. Who takes leave of the impresario?
(a) The midwife.
(b) The musician.
(c) The beggar.
(d) The hunger artist.

5. What is one reason the hunger artist cannot adopt another profession?
(a) He is unskilled.
(b) He is too old.
(c) He is too poor.
(d) He can't read.

Short Answer Questions

1. By how many has the hunger artist been applauded in his time?

2. Who can hardly understand the artist's temperament, according to the impresario?

3. Where does the impresario hurry the artist to discover where interest might lay?

4. What faction fights against those who want to look at the artist at the circus?

5. What always unnerves the artist and proves too much for him?

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