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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the hunger artist make no secret of, yet others don't believe him?
(a) That fasting is easy.
(b) That he is starving.
(c) That he isn't hungry.
(d) That fasting is difficult.

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

3. How has the artist never yet left his cage at the end of a fast?
(a) On his feet.
(b) Joyfully.
(c) Sadly.
(d) Of his free will.

4. What sight of the crowds remain the best to the artist at the circus?
(a) The sight of them peering close.
(b) The sight as they left.
(c) The sight of their tears.
(d) The first sight in the distance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what circumstances does the circus make use of the hunger artist?

2. Why does the artist reply that he "can't help it" in speaking to the overseer?

3. Those who are not content with the dim night lighting of the hall focused the artist in the full glare of what?

4. The passerby's joking is, in its way, the "stupidest lie ever invented by _____ and inborn malice."

5. What reminds one man of the hunger artist when he doesn't see the artist in the cage?

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