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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would the children do "for greater security" while watching the artist?
(a) Hold each others' hands.
(b) Hide behind their mothers.
(c) Run away.
(d) Hide their eyes.

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

3. What does the overseer do when conversing with the artist?
(a) Beats him.
(b) Feeds him.
(c) Shouts at him.
(d) Agrees with him.

4. The artist is, in fact, the only _______ to the menagerie?
(a) Decoration.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Catalyst.
(d) Impediment.

5. Of the two factions who fight around the artist's cage, which does he grow to dislike more?
(a) The ones who want past.
(b) The ones who want to feed him.
(c) The ones who want to stop and stare.
(d) The ones who fight for the better view.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the hunger artist perform?

3. What does the hunger artist alone know?

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

5. Eventually, at the circus, the notice board does what?

(see the answer key)

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