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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1 - 50).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sometimes drifts into Piranesi's area of the House where he sleeps?
(a) Other people.
(b) Cats.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Clouds.

2. What kinds of clothes does the Other usually wear?
(a) Police officer's uniforms.
(b) Protective hazard suits.
(c) Well-cut suits.
(d) Jeans and t-shirts.

3. Which statue saves Piranesi's life when he falls?
(a) The Minotaur.
(b) The Trampled Man.
(c) The Fox teaching creatures.
(d) The Faun.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Piranesi stop writing in his journal in the final month of the last year?

3. Who does Piranesi think is the Sixteenth Person in the beginning of Part I?

4. Which creatures does Piranesi sometimes talk to in the House?

5. What does Piranesi hypothesize about the wisdom of the birds?

(see the answer key)

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