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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the artist's performance affected by his advancing age?

2. What does a passing father occasionally stop and point out to his children?

3. Why is the artist's troubled spirit all the more troubled?

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. Why does the hunger artist avoid reading the contract?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the decline of interest in the hunger artist's art. Why has this happened? What is the artist's reaction to the disinterest?

Essay Topic 2

What is the tense and voice of "A Hunger Artist"? Define these terms in your answer. Describe whose point of view the story follows and why.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the term "Kafkaesque." What qualities does work of this style and or mood convey?

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