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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. How does Piranesi come to predict the event that is going to occur shortly in Part IV?
(a) By watching the celestial bodies.
(b) By recording the temperature differentials in the Great Halls.
(c) By consulting the Table of Tides he keeps.
(d) By reading the books the Other has left for him.

2. Why does Piranesi think the House gives more to the Other than to him?
(a) The Other pays the House.
(b) The Other knows the person who runs the House.
(c) The Other must do rituals to extract things from the House.
(d) The Other does not know how to take care of himself like Piranesi does.

3. Who do Piranesi's journals say Ketterley was a student of?
(a) Arne-Sayles.
(b) Frangipani.
(c) D'Agostino.
(d) Piranesi.

4. Who does Piranesi realize gave him the name Piranesi in Part IV?
(a) The Other.
(b) Arne-Sayles.
(c) His mother.
(d) 16.

5. What is the title of Arne-Sayles's book that Piranesi includes some extracts from in his journals?
(a) The Magic Night.
(b) The Half-Seen Door.
(c) The Great and Secret Knowledge.
(d) The Bones Rituals.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Piranesi whisper to niches and plinths in Part II, hoping for a sign of recognition?

3. Which of the following does the Other ask Piranesi for in Part I?

4. What does the visitor suggest Piranesi do to the Other?

5. What do Piranesi's journals say Matthew Rose Sorensen studied?

(see the answer key)

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