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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who selects the permanent watchers?
(a) The public.
(b) The artist.
(c) The manager.
(d) The mayor.

2. The interest of the public is stimulated by a steadily increasing pressure of what?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Advertisement.
(d) Revenge.

3. Who appears, blissful at having been selected for the honor, to help the artist down?
(a) Two women.
(b) Three children.
(c) Two men.
(d) One mother.

4. Which watchers are more to the taste of the hunger artist?
(a) Those who cry at his pain.
(b) Those who play cards.
(c) Those who offer him food.
(d) Those who sit close to the bars.

5. At the best, the audience sets the artist down as what?
(a) Anorexic.
(b) A fraud.
(c) Modest.
(d) A thief.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom is seeing the hunger artist a special treat?

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

3. What type of band plays the last day of the fast?

4. In what tense is "A Hunger Artist" written?

5. What is a necessary accompaniment to the profession of fasting?

(see the answer key)

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