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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does the hunger artist hire himself out?
(a) A large circus.
(b) A local fair.
(c) An art gallery.
(d) A museum.

2. "What was a _______ of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it!"
(a) Gallantry.
(b) Result.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Consequence.

3. What surrounds the artist's cage at the circus?
(a) Trees.
(b) Dolls.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Bright placards.

4. What cannot hold out against the fact that the crowds are on their way only to the menagerie?
(a) Obstinate self-deception.
(b) Desperate facade.
(c) Manic necessity.
(d) Innate unknowing.

5. When the weight of the protagonist lands on one of the ladies, she finds "this post of honor was not at all _______."
(a) A post of honor.
(b) A delight.
(c) What she expected it to be.
(d) A saintly gesture.

6. Where does the impresario hurry the artist to discover where interest might lay?
(a) To Africa.
(b) To America.
(c) To Asia.
(d) All over Europe.

7. 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.

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

9. To fight against this lack of understanding to the audience and others is what?
(a) Engaging.
(b) Insatiable.
(c) Impossible.
(d) Enraging.

10. Time and time again in good faith the artist stands by the bars doing what?
(a) Feeling in agony.
(b) Screaming madly.
(c) Crying like a child.
(d) Listening to the impresario.

11. What does the impresario claim to praise of the artist to the public?
(a) His ambition.
(b) His dedication.
(c) His ignorance.
(d) His godliness.

12. What does the artist do when someone would suggest his melancholy is probably caused by his fasting?
(a) Call to the heavens.
(b) Weep endlessly.
(c) Laugh at them.
(d) Break into an outburst of fury.

13. How does the impresario feel about his method of punishments?
(a) He hates it.
(b) He longs for it.
(c) He enjoys it.
(d) He feels obligated.

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

15. "A large _____ with its enormous traffic in replacing and recruiting men, animals and apparatus can always find use for people at any time."
(a) Fair.
(b) Museum.
(c) Circus.
(d) Vaudeville show.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the rare stroke of luck the artist encounters at the circus?

2. What does the artist, who has longed for these audience viewings at the circus, come to do?

3. When the hordes came pouring out to see the _____, they can hardly avoid passing the artist's cage.

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

5. What will surely come into fashion at a later date?

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