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

2. What word does the Other use for the "halls?"
(a) Apartments.
(b) Spaces.
(c) Rooms.
(d) Holes.

3. What is the Other afraid of in the House?
(a) The statues.
(b) The enchanting music.
(c) The powerful tides and movement of water.
(d) The wolves.

4. Why does Piranesi think the Other has asked him about Batter-Sea?
(a) He thinks it means something important to the Other.
(b) He thinks it is a control question in his data-collecting.
(c) He thinks it might be where he was born.
(d) He thinks it is where the Other was born.

5. What task takes up much of Piranesi's time?
(a) His knitting.
(b) His work with the Other.
(c) His painting.
(d) His singing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Piranesi think the birds sometimes try to communicate with him?

2. What is the Other on a quest after?

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

4. How does Piranesi feel about the presence of the dead in the House?

5. Who is the Biscuit-Box Man?

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