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1. What is the task of the observers chosen by the public strangely enough they were usually butchers
who, always three at time.?
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2. What is the hunger artists opinion about the level of difficulty of fasting?
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3. How long does each fast last in the beginning of the story?
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4. Why?
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5. Who, at the end of each fast, leads the hunger artist out of his cage?
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6. How does the impresario punish the hunger artist when he frightens the audience by raging at their
sympathy?
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7. Where does the hunger artist work once his popularity wanes?
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8. How is he treated at his new place of employment?
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9. Why does the hunger artist ask for forgiveness, explaining why he fasted his entire life?
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10. What replaces the hunger artist?
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BONUS
Name another work by Franz Kafka.