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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the impresario hurry the artist to discover where interest might lay?
(a) All over Europe.
(b) To America.
(c) To Asia.
(d) To Africa.

2. When does the lack of interest of the public seem to take hold?
(a) As the tightrope walkers enter.
(b) Gradually over years.
(c) Almost overnight.
(d) As the radio is introduced.

3. From what day of the fast are the photographs taken?
(a) The fortieth.
(b) The seventh.
(c) The first.
(d) The fifteenth.

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

5. Time and time again in good faith the artist stands by the bars doing what?
(a) Crying like a child.
(b) Feeling in agony.
(c) Listening to the impresario.
(d) Screaming madly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What, in his zeal, does the hunger artist conveniently forget in talking to the circus professionals?

3. People might have stayed longer at the artist's cage at the circus but for what?

4. How does the impresario feel about his method of punishments?

5. What does the impresario sell to the audience?

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