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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the impresario sell to the audience?
(a) Photographs.
(b) Sandwiches.
(c) Autographs.
(d) Stencils.

4. How does the impresario punish the artist's rages?
(a) Feed the artist.
(b) Beat the artist.
(c) Scream at the artist.
(d) Apologize publically.

5. Why does the hunger artist avoid reading the contract?
(a) Because he couldn't read.
(b) Because he had no manager.
(c) To save himself money.
(d) To spare his own feelings.

6. "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.

7. "Those, whom nothing could have prevented from stopping to look at him ________, raced past with long strides."
(a) As long as they had breath.
(b) For their children's sake.
(c) For the artist's sake.
(d) If they so wanted.

8. What is the rare stroke of luck the artist encounters at the circus?
(a) A poor soul drops him bread.
(b) A father stops with his children.
(c) An animal is freed.
(d) He is fed.

9. Contrary to people's regard, the hunger artist states that he could do what if given the opportunity at the circus?
(a) Quit starving.
(b) Establish a record never yet achieved.
(c) Walk on fire.
(d) Learn to walk the tightrope.

10. What faction fights against those who want to look at the artist at the circus?
(a) Those who want to kill him.
(b) Those who manage him.
(c) Those who want past to the animals.
(d) Those who want a better view.

11. What do the audiences do once the artist collapses into the straw with a groan?
(a) Applaud.
(b) Run away.
(c) Press close to gaze at him.
(d) Weep loudly.

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

13. What literary device is used in this sentence: "He was at once deafened by the storm of shouting."
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Irony.

14. When the hordes came pouring out to see the _____, they can hardly avoid passing the artist's cage.
(a) Clowns.
(b) Parachutists.
(c) Monkeys.
(d) Animals.

15. Under what circumstances does the circus make use of the hunger artist?
(a) He is not paid.
(b) He feeds the animals.
(c) He behaves.
(d) He doesn't ask much.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where, in regard to the ring, is the artist stationed?

3. Who supposedly orders the toast?

4. Who takes leave of the impresario?

5. Who can hardly understand the artist's temperament, according to the impresario?

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