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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 151 - 200).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the Other tell Piranesi he might not want to stick around and work with him on one day in Part I?
(a) He needs privacy to speak to the dead of the House.
(b) He is cooking and not everyone likes his kind of food.
(c) He is working on a ritual.
(d) He is singing and he does not have the best voice.

2. 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 sorrow at having lost his mother.
(c) He loses himself in his joy.
(d) He loses himself in fantasies about what his past life might have been like.

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

4. What does Piranesi do to help the birds build their nest?
(a) Dries seaweed and brings it to them.
(b) Finds hay for them.
(c) Helps them build the nest with paper.
(d) Builds them a nest of cotton and logs.

5. Why does Piranesi venture to the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?
(a) To find food.
(b) To see if he can hear music there as he did once before.
(c) To find 16.
(d) To see if he can view starts from there, per the Other's request.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Arne-Sayles describe the act of remembering in the extract from his book in Piranesi's journals?

2. What does Piranesi think the statue of the Faun might be communicating to him in Part III?

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

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

5. How many pages associated with Ketterley in Piranesi's journals are missing?

(see the answer key)

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