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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 presence.
(b) The impresario's perversion of the truth.
(c) The audience's whispering.
(d) The undying hunger.

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

3. Contrary to people's regard, the hunger artist states that he could do what if given the opportunity at the circus?
(a) Learn to walk the tightrope.
(b) Quit starving.
(c) Establish a record never yet achieved.
(d) Walk on fire.

4. Who could watch the hunger artist continuously, day and night?
(a) The reporter.
(b) The impresario.
(c) No one.
(d) The cameras.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary device is used in this sentence: "He was at once deafened by the storm of shouting."

2. What does the artist tell stories of with his watchers?

3. To whom does the hunger artist hire himself out?

4. How is the artist's performance affected by his advancing age?

5. The hunger artist is never what?

(see the answer key)

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