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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who pays for the breakfast brought to the watchers?
(a) The mayor.
(b) The artist.
(c) The impresario.
(d) The musicians.
2. In what tense is "A Hunger Artist" written?
(a) Future.
(b) Present.
(c) Future perfect.
(d) Past.
3. The permanent watchers are a formality to reassure whom?
(a) The masses.
(b) The artist.
(c) The children.
(d) The impresario.
4. How does the artist feel about the bright light used by some watchers?
(a) It makes him miserable.
(b) It makes him defenseless.
(c) It makes him angry.
(d) It doesn't trouble him.
5. How many of the permanent watchers are there at a given time?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.
Short Answer Questions
1. What would the hunger artist do to prove he wasn't eating?
2. What does the impresario secretly do to the hunger artist as he lifts him?
3. What does the hunger artist alone know?
4. Who lends the watchers the bright light to focus on the artist?
5. For whom is the hunger artist often just a joke that happens to be in fashion?
Short Essay Questions
1. How long is the fast and why is it this fixed time?
2. What is the negative side of the hunger artist's art and of art in general?
3. How does the artist feel about the world when he dies?
4. What are the reactions of those who do stop at the circus?
5. What does the artist tell his watchers regarding the ease or difficulty of his fasting? What do they respond?
6. What has happened to the interest in fasting at the beginning of the story? How has this affected the artist?
7. What spectacle is there when the fast is over?
8. What does the artist think of his repast? What does the impresario do to prove the artist's heroism?
9. How does the audience's lack of understanding affect the artist?
10. What causes the hunger artist and the impresario to part ways?
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