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

2. What does the visitor suggest Piranesi do to the Other?
(a) Write more journal entries for him.
(b) Learn from him.
(c) Bring him to the real world.
(d) Kill him.

3. What does Piranesi do to warn 16 about the momentous event he predicts in Part IV?
(a) Waits for her to appear in the vestibule to speak to her.
(b) Asks the Biscuit-Box Man to find and warn her.
(c) Asks the Other to find and warn her.
(d) Writes her a note.

4. What name is the Other shouting in Part III when Piranesi comes upon him?
(a) Pastina.
(b) Marcello.
(c) Raphael.
(d) Fiorelli.

5. Why does Ketterley say Arne-Sayles most often described the other world as a labyrinth?
(a) Because of its references to American literature.
(b) Because of its associations with a vision of cosmic grandeur.
(c) Because of its association with academia.
(d) Because of its association with the stars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are there very few of in the House?

2. How does 16 refer to Laurence Arne-Sayles in her note to Piranesi?

3. What does Ketterley do when he spirits Sorensen to the other world?

4. What does the box the Other brings a gift to Piranesi in have on the outside of it?

5. What smell does Sorensen immediately detect in Ketterley's house that seems out of place?

(see the answer key)

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