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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The permanent watchers are a formality to reassure whom?
(a) The artist.
(b) The children.
(c) The impresario.
(d) The masses.

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

3. How does the creature who replaces the artist feel about its freedom?
(a) It is enraged by it.
(b) It longs for it.
(c) It is desperate for it.
(d) It seems not to miss it.

4. What is a necessary accompaniment to the profession of fasting?
(a) Rudeness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Suspicion.
(d) Hunger.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who could watch the hunger artist continuously, day and night?

2. "People grew ______ with the strange idea that they could be expected, in times like these, to take an interest in the hunger artist."

3. What does the passerby make merry and speak of?

4. Why do many people regretfully have to keep away from his exhibitions?

5. "There were people who argued that this breakfast was an unfair attempt" to do what?

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