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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Obstinate self-deception.
(d) Desperate facade.

3. How long does the artist carry on in this way, with small intervals of recuperation?
(a) Three years.
(b) Many years.
(c) One year.
(d) Six months.

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) Vaudeville show.
(d) Circus.

5. What does a passing father occasionally stop and point out to his children?
(a) What happens if they don't eat.
(b) Why he is in a cage.
(c) Who the poor man is.
(d) What the phenomenon means.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the hunger artist avoid reading the contract?

2. Who supposedly orders the toast?

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

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

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

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