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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the artist's troubled spirit all the more troubled?
(a) For constant hunger.
(b) His utter loneliness.
(c) No one takes his trouble seriously.
(d) His lack of money.

2. What does the impresario claim to praise of the artist to the public?
(a) His ignorance.
(b) His godliness.
(c) His dedication.
(d) His ambition.

3. Where does the impresario hurry the artist to discover where interest might lay?
(a) To America.
(b) All over Europe.
(c) To Africa.
(d) To Asia.

4. What does the artist do, causing general alarm, in his rages?
(a) Shake the bars like a wild animal.
(b) Cry hysterically.
(c) Beat himself with a stick.
(d) Scream a piercing scream.

5. From what day of the fast are the photographs taken?
(a) The first.
(b) The seventh.
(c) The fifteenth.
(d) The fortieth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the artist, who has longed for these audience viewings at the circus, come to do?

2. What, in his zeal, does the hunger artist conveniently forget in talking to the circus professionals?

3. How long does the artist carry on in this way, with small intervals of recuperation?

4. "Those, whom nothing could have prevented from stopping to look at him ________, raced past with long strides."

5. Why does the hunger artist avoid reading the contract?

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