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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the passersby going when passing the artist's cage at the circus?
(a) The menagerie.
(b) The main ring.
(c) The panther cage.
(d) The circus tent.

2. Where could the hunger artist barely show himself?
(a) Village fairs.
(b) The circus.
(c) Taverns.
(d) School shows.

3. 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.

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

5. What is the term referring to literature which shares a mood of impending doom, nightmarish narration, and a bleak and senseless complexity?
(a) Absurdist.
(b) Existentialist.
(c) Bleak.
(d) Kafkaesque.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the weight of the protagonist lands on one of the ladies, she finds "this post of honor was not at all _______."

2. Of those who pass his cage daily at the circus, how many might take an interest in the artist?

3. What incomprehensible boast of the artist's does the impresario mention to the public?

4. Those who are not content with the dim night lighting of the hall focused the artist in the full glare of what?

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

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