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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 101 - 150).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What have both the Other and the Prophet said the House is a source of?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Malice.
(c) Madness and forgetfulness.
(d) Contentment.

2. Which area of the House is derelict?
(a) The North-Eastern Halls.
(b) The South-Western Halls.
(c) The Vestibules.
(d) The Drowned Halls.

3. What was Laurence Arne-Sayles eventually arrested for?
(a) Robbery.
(b) Murder.
(c) Plagiarism.
(d) Kidnapping.

4. What are there very few of in the House?
(a) Statues.
(b) Dark spaces.
(c) Places to play music.
(d) Plinths.

5. Where does Piranesi believe 16 lives?
(a) On an ocean island.
(b) In another world.
(c) In a far-off region of the House, in his own Halls.
(d) In a hall near to Piranesi's own Halls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it about the woman and beehive statue that gives Piranesi a sense of queasiness?

2. Who is the Biscuit-Box Man?

3. Where were the early volumes of D'Agostino's journals kept?

4. How many people does Piranesi believe ever existed in the World?

5. Why does the Other tell Piranesi he did not tell him 16 is a woman?

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