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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What surrounds the artist's cage at the circus?
(a) Dolls.
(b) Trees.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Bright placards.

3. What is the hunger artist stationed next to at the circus?
(a) The animal cages.
(b) The trampoline.
(c) The freak show.
(d) The tightropes.

4. What sight of the crowds remain the best to the artist at the circus?
(a) The sight of them peering close.
(b) The sight as they left.
(c) The sight of their tears.
(d) The first sight in the distance.

5. "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) Circus.
(d) Vaudeville show.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the impresario bring out to show the audience?

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

3. What incomprehensible boast of the artist's does the impresario mention to the public?

4. According to the narrator, it is not only the artist that is taken on but what as well?

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

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