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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one reason the hunger artist cannot adopt another profession?
(a) He is too old.
(b) He can't read.
(c) He is too poor.
(d) He is unskilled.

2. What does the artist do, causing general alarm, in his rages?
(a) Scream a piercing scream.
(b) Cry hysterically.
(c) Beat himself with a stick.
(d) Shake the bars like a wild animal.

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

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

5. What is the point of view of "A Hunger Artist"?
(a) Second person.
(b) First person.
(c) Third person.
(d) Fourth person.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would the hunger artist do to prove he wasn't eating?

2. Of the two factions who fight around the artist's cage, which does he grow to dislike more?

3. Where does the impresario hurry the artist to discover where interest might lay?

4. How many of the permanent watchers are there at a given time?

5. Who supposedly orders the toast?

(see the answer key)

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