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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the hunger artist make no secret of, yet others don't believe him?
(a) That fasting is difficult.
(b) That fasting is easy.
(c) That he is starving.
(d) That he isn't hungry.

2. For whom is seeing the hunger artist a special treat?
(a) The elderly.
(b) Animals.
(c) Children.
(d) Women.

3. How long is the limit of the artist's fast set to be?
(a) Forty days.
(b) Four months.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) Four weeks.

4. What sticks out prominently on the artist?
(a) His jaw.
(b) His ribs.
(c) His cheekbones.
(d) His knuckles.

5. The artist's inner what is always rankled?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Rage.
(c) Dissatisfaction.
(d) Desperation.

6. Who are the permanent watchers, usually?
(a) Priests.
(b) Butchers.
(c) Candy salesmen.
(d) Mothers.

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

8. What is the hunger artist's happiest moment with the overnight watchers?
(a) When they applaud.
(b) When they leave.
(c) When they are brought breakfast.
(d) When they offer him food.

9. The narrator writes that "during these last _____ an interest in professional fasting has diminished."
(a) Decades.
(b) Years.
(c) Centuries.
(d) Months.

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

11. Who appears, blissful at having been selected for the honor, to help the artist down?
(a) One mother.
(b) Two women.
(c) Three children.
(d) Two men.

12. When the watchers are invited to take on a night's vigil without a breakfast, what do they do?
(a) Insist on money.
(b) Make themselves scarce.
(c) Lie about the artist.
(d) Get angry.

13. On fine days, where is the cage set?
(a) In the garden.
(b) By the butterfly cages.
(c) Outside.
(d) On a roof.

14. What does the impresario secretly do to the hunger artist as he lifts him?
(a) Shakes him.
(b) Bite him.
(c) Kick him.
(d) Stab him.

15. At the best, the audience sets the artist down as what?
(a) Modest.
(b) Anorexic.
(c) A fraud.
(d) A thief.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lends the watchers the bright light to focus on the artist?

2. Who pays for the breakfast brought to the watchers?

3. What does the hunger artist wear?

4. What does the hunger artist alone know?

5. In what tense is "A Hunger Artist" written?

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