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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 51 - 100).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the Other threaten to stop working with Piranesi in Part II?
(a) Piranesi says he wants to meet new people.
(b) Piranesi says he does not think they should keep going on the quest for the Great and Secret Knowledge.
(c) Piranesi says he wants to leave the House.
(d) Piranesi says he can no longer write in his journals.

2. What does Piranesi eat in the House?
(a) The vegetables from his vegetable garden.
(b) The cows he kills.
(c) Seaweed and various mollusks and fish.
(d) The meals the Other brings him.

3. How does Piranesi feel about the presence of the dead in the House?
(a) He is indifferent to it.
(b) It is consolatory.
(c) He is scared by it.
(d) It is sad.

4. Who does the visitor tell Piranesi the Other really is?
(a) James Ritter.
(b) Sarah Raphael.
(c) Val Ketterley.
(d) His father.

5. What do the windows of the House look out upon?
(a) The sea.
(b) The desert.
(c) The forest.
(d) Great Courtyards.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Piranesi's starting point for the numbering of the Halls?

2. Why does Piranesi think the Other has asked him about Batter-Sea?

3. Who wrote the book The Magician's Nephew that Clarke quotes from in Part I?

4. Which statue saves Piranesi's life when he falls?

5. Why does the Other say the House does not affect him in the same way it affects Piranesi?

(see the answer key)

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