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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 201 - 245).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Piranesi get an exhilarating inkling of when he visits the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?
(a) What it might be like if there were thousands of people in the world instead of just two, as he believes.
(b) What it is like to feel God's presence.
(c) What it is like to hear real music.
(d) What it is like to feel the real love from another human being.

2. Who else does Piranesi want to warn of the momentous event about to happen in Part IV?
(a) 16.
(b) Arne-Sayles.
(c) The Biscuit Box Man.
(d) Sylvia D'Agostino.

3. What scent surprises Piranesi in the First Vestibule in Part III?
(a) The smell of fear.
(b) Perfume that smells of lemons and geranium.
(c) A fecal smell.
(d) The smell of delicious cooking.

4. What does Piranesi ask the statues to bring him after his vision of another world in Part IV?
(a) Water.
(b) A bed.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Food.

5. Who does Raphael tell Piranesi has been looking for Matthew Rose Sorensen?
(a) His mother, father, sisters, and friends.
(b) James Ritter.
(c) The Queen of England.
(d) His fiance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Raphael's first name?

2. What is the Other afraid of in the House?

3. What does Piranesi mistake the albatross for at first?

4. What does Piranesi use to weigh down his note to Laurence in Part II?

5. Where did Arne-Sayles assign D'Agostino a room in his house, according to Piranesi's journals?

(see the answer key)

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