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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 201 - 245).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Piranesi lose himself in Part IV?
(a) He loses himself in long fantasies of revenge against the Other.
(b) He loses himself in his joy.
(c) He loses himself in fantasies about what his past life might have been like.
(d) He loses himself in his sorrow at having lost his mother.

4. What smell does Sorensen immediately detect in Ketterley's house that seems out of place?
(a) A smell of rain, clouds, air, and the sea.
(b) A smell of roses.
(c) A smell of the forest.
(d) A smell of sandalwood.

5. What does Piranesi remember the Prophet having told him about what would happen the closer 16 gets to Piranesi?
(a) The more joyful Ketterley would become.
(b) The more mad Piranesi would become.
(c) The more hungry Piranesi would become.
(d) The more dangerous Ketterley will become.

Short Answer Questions

1. What image does Piranesi see when he reads the message 16 writes to him in Part IV?

2. What is the Other on a quest after?

3. What does Ketterley use for the ritual?

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

5. What does Ketterley bring to the Halls to try to save himself from the flood?

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