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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. What does Piranesi have to brave to find food?
(a) The tides.
(b) The fires.
(c) The wolf-infested halls.
(d) The diseased halls.

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

3. What does Piranesi notice about the yellow leaf he sees on the waters in Part I?
(a) It tastes sweet.
(b) Its surface repells water, like something that is meant to stay in the air.
(c) It has been eaten by a creature already.
(d) It is decayed.

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

5. Why does the Other threaten to stop working with Piranesi in Part II?
(a) Piranesi says he does not think they should keep going on the quest for the Great and Secret Knowledge.
(b) Piranesi says he wants to leave the House.
(c) Piranesi says he wants to meet new people.
(d) Piranesi says he can no longer write in his journals.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Piranesi do to try to determine if there are really gaps in his memory?

3. What are the white shapes Piranesi sees scattered around the pavement as he makes his way back from the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?

4. What does Piranesi get an exhilarating inkling of when he visits the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?

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

(see the answer key)

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