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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what is a toast drunk after the artist is released?
(a) The women.
(b) The impresario.
(c) The public.
(d) The artist.

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

3. The passing father might tell his children of "earlier years when he had watched similar but ___________ performances."
(a) More excruciating.
(b) Sadder.
(c) Much more thrilling.
(d) More barbaric.

4. Everywhere, "as if by secret agreement, a positive ______ from professional fasting was in evidence."
(a) Propulsion.
(b) Interest.
(c) Distaste.
(d) Revulsion.

5. According to the narrator, it is not only the artist that is taken on but what as well?
(a) His impresario.
(b) His martyrdom.
(c) His strength.
(d) His famous name.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What literary device is used in this sentence: "He was at once deafened by the storm of shouting."

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

5. What does the impresario sell to the audience?

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