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

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

3. What is it about the woman and beehive statue that gives Piranesi a sense of queasiness?
(a) The woman is in a grave.
(b) A bee crawls over her left eye.
(c) A bee is stinging her.
(d) The woman is about to be attacked by a swarm of bees.

4. What event does Piranesi witness in Part I that only happens once every eight years?
(a) The solar eclipse.
(b) The lunar eclipse.
(c) The setting of two suns.
(d) The joining of the tides.

5. What does Laurence want directions to in his note in Part II?
(a) The statue of the Fox teaching other creatures.
(b) The Ninety-Second Vestibule in the North-West Hall.
(c) The library.
(d) The place where the tides coalesce.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Piranesi venture to the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?

2. Which area of the House is derelict?

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

4. Who is the Biscuit-Box Man?

5. What is the Other afraid of in the House?

(see the answer key)

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