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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What always unnerves the artist and proves too much for him?
(a) The impresario's perversion of the truth.
(b) The impresario's presence.
(c) The undying hunger.
(d) The audience's whispering.

2. How many of the permanent watchers are there at a given time?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

3. What will surely come into fashion at a later date?
(a) Fasting.
(b) Hunger strikes.
(c) Bear-baiting.
(d) Trapeze artists.

4. What is the only item of furniture in the cage?
(a) A bed.
(b) A clock.
(c) A desk.
(d) A chair.

5. Why is the artist's troubled spirit all the more troubled?
(a) No one takes his trouble seriously.
(b) His utter loneliness.
(c) His lack of money.
(d) For constant hunger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sight of the crowds remain the best to the artist at the circus?

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

3. What is the cushioning on the hunger artist's stage?

4. Why is the limit set on the artist's fasts?

5. What does the artist stubbornly refuse to do at the last moment of his fast?

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