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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the best, the audience sets the artist down as what?

2. The artist's inner what is always rankled?

3. What lights the stage of the artist at night?

4. The interest of the public is stimulated by a steadily increasing pressure of what?

5. The narrator writes that "during these last _____ an interest in professional fasting has diminished."

Short Essay Questions

1. What about the cage's placement at the circus further lowers the artist's spirit?

2. How does the circus diminish the artist's form?

3. What does the artist realize about people knowing the truth of his fasts?

4. Describe the hunger artist. What does he look like? What does he wear?

5. What has changed about the audience in terms of their belief in the artist?

6. What does the artist experience of the audience at the circus?

7. How does the artist respond when the attendant tells him they have admired his fasting? What happens after he dies?

8. What does the artist think of his repast? What does the impresario do to prove the artist's heroism?

9. How does the artist react to those who believe him to be "cheating"?

10. What spectators does the artist prefer? What do these spectators do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the artist and the panther. What adjectives are used to describe each? How do these compare in the eyes of the audience?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Kafka's use of exposition in the story. What does he detail in the exposition? How much of the story contains exposition? Why?

Essay Topic 3

What other figures in history have had famous fasts? Why? How does the hunger artist's fast compare to these?

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