A Hunger Artist Quizzes

A Hunger Artist Quiz 1

By Teddy Wayne · Last reviewed September 07, 2002

1 Who manages the hunger artist?

The overseer

The impresario

The escorts

The audience
2 What happens to one of the escorts when she helps the hunger artist out of his cage?

She laughs

She runs away

She cries

She screams
3 For how long is the hunger artist allowed to fast?

One month

360 days

One day

Forty days
4 Who usually watches the hunger artist overnight?

Scientists

Butchers

Doctors

Lawyers
5 Who buys breakfast for the watchers?

The audience

The butchers

The impresario

The hunger artist
6 What does the hunger artist use for a bed in his cage?

A pool

Food

Straw

An old mattress
7 How often does the hunger artist sleep?

Rarely

Sometimes

Often

Almost all the time
8 Where does the hunger artist go on tour?

Europe

Africa

The U.S.

Asia
9 What object does the hunger artist ignore in his cage?

A picture of his wife

A pen

A clock

A toilet
10 What does the hunger artist sometimes do to prove he is not sneaking food?

He cries

He empties his pockets

He runs around

He sings
11 When people tell the hunger artist his melancholy is caused by fasting, how does he react?

He shakes the bars of his cage

He lies down

He politely argues

He agrees
12 How does the impresario convince the audience that the hunger artist is exhausted?

He puts the hunger artist through a series of tests

He reads to them from the hunger artist's diary

He shows photographs to the audience

He makes the hunger artist say it himself
13 To what does the hunger artist hire himself out after his tour?

The park

The museum

The police station

The circus
14 Who tends to him there?

The impresario

The magistrate

The sheriff

The overseer
15 Have the hunger artist's skills faded by the time he works at this new place?

Mostly

Not at all

Slightly

Completely
16 Why do people watch the hunger artist at the circus?

Because he is world-famous

Because fasting is popular again

Because there is nothing better to do

Because he is near the animals
17 Whom does the hunger artist end up loathing most at the circus?

The zoo-goers

The animals

The overseer

The people who watch him in defiance of the zoo-goers
18 At what time of the day do the animals depress the hunger artist?

Exercising time

Sleeping time

Observing time

Feeding time
19 What animal replaces the hunger artist in his cage after he dies?

A lion

A jackal

A sloth

A panther
20 Whom does the hunger artist believe is "cheating him of his reward"?

Himself

The panther

The world

The impresario
21 Why does the hunger artist not know if he is breaking records at the circus?

He does not care about records anymore

He does not know what the record is

He has forgotten the concept of time

The notice board by his cage is not being updated
22 What does the hunger artist ask for from everybody as he dies?

Food

Forgiveness

Mercy

Silence
23 Why does the hunger artist say people should not admire his fasting?

Because he hates everyone

Because it is a serious medical condition

Because he cheated

Because he never found food he liked
24 What facial gesture does the hunger artist make with his final words?

He purses his lips

He winks

He raises his eyebrows

He frowns
25 What does the impresario do when he helps the hunger artist from his cage?

He cleans him

He spits on him

He punches him

He shakes him

The Hunger Artist

The panther replaces the hunger artist in his cage after he dies.

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