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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. How does Piranesi think the birds sometimes try to communicate with him?
(a) By flying from statue to statue and trying to communicate meaning to him in this way.
(b) By leaving food for him.
(c) By chirping musical notes.
(d) By scratching letters in the sand with their beaks.

2. What does Piranesi think the House originally may have intended the Folded-Up Child for?
(a) As a fortune-teller to keep him company.
(b) As a potential wife for him.
(c) As a child he could raise.
(d) As a doctor to treat his illnesses.

3. Why does the Other tell Piranesi he might not want to stick around and work with him on one day in Part I?
(a) He is working on a ritual.
(b) He is singing and he does not have the best voice.
(c) He needs privacy to speak to the dead of the House.
(d) He is cooking and not everyone likes his kind of food.

4. What does the visitor suggest Piranesi do to the Other?
(a) Kill him.
(b) Bring him to the real world.
(c) Learn from him.
(d) Write more journal entries for him.

5. Why does Piranesi stop writing in his journal in the final month of the last year?
(a) He had nothing to write about.
(b) His hands were too cold from the winter weather.
(c) He lost his pens.
(d) The Other forbade him to write.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sometimes drifts into Piranesi's area of the House where he sleeps?

2. What does the visitor in Part II tell Piranesi his world is?

3. Who does Piranesi show his new shoes to?

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

5. Where does Piranesi believe 16 lives?

(see the answer key)

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