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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 adjective does Piranesi use to refer to James Ritter repeatedly?
(a) Wayward.
(b) Brilliant.
(c) Poor.
(d) Forgotten.

2. How does Piranesi account for his own understanding of words in his journals that are unfamiliar to him at first?
(a) He must have had experience in another world.
(b) The knowledge must have been told to him by the Other.
(c) 16 must have told him about the words when he was not conscious.
(d) The House has enlarged his knowledge.

3. What does Piranesi use to weigh down his note to Laurence in Part II?
(a) A pebble.
(b) A shell.
(c) A book.
(d) A bowl.

4. What does Sorensen tell Ketterley he is primarily interested in?
(a) Transgressive ideas.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Classics.
(d) Music.

5. How does Piranesi lose himself in Part IV?
(a) He loses himself in his joy.
(b) He loses himself in long fantasies of revenge against the Other.
(c) He loses himself in his sorrow at having lost his mother.
(d) He loses himself in fantasies about what his past life might have been like.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Other instruct Piranesi to do if he ever sees anyone else in the labyrinth?

2. Who does Piranesi show his new shoes to?

3. Why does Piranesi think the House gives more to the Other than to him?

4. Where was Sylvia D'Agostino born, according to Piranesi's journal?

5. Who was the only other person to allegedly be able to get to the other world by altering a state of mind?

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