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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Piranesi and the Other often meet?
(a) The Thirty-Third North-Eastern Hall.
(b) The Ninety-Second South-Western Hall.
(c) The Second South-Western Hall.
(d) The Vestibule with the fox statues.

2. What event does Piranesi witness in Part I that only happens once every eight years?
(a) The joining of the tides.
(b) The setting of two suns.
(c) The lunar eclipse.
(d) The solar eclipse.

3. What revelation comes to Piranesi on his way back from the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?
(a) The Great and Secret Knowledge seems insignificant to him now.
(b) He needs to try to meet another person besides the Other.
(c) The Other might be his enemy.
(d) He does not know where his own mother is.

4. Which one is Piranesi's favorite statue?
(a) The Fox.
(b) The men emerging from the wall.
(c) The Faun.
(d) The Minotaurs.

5. What sometimes drifts into Piranesi's area of the House where he sleeps?
(a) Ghosts.
(b) Other people.
(c) Clouds.
(d) Cats.

6. Who does the visitor tell Piranesi the Other really is?
(a) Val Ketterley.
(b) His father.
(c) Sarah Raphael.
(d) James Ritter.

7. What does Piranesi often take particular note of about his meetings with the Other in his journals?
(a) The Other's breathing patterns.
(b) The state of the Other's teeth.
(c) The Other's accent.
(d) The Other's suits and clothes.

8. Who wrote the book The Magician's Nephew that Clarke quotes from in Part I?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) C.S. Lewis.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Mark Twain.

9. Which season is challenging for Piranesi?
(a) Spring.
(b) Fall.
(c) Summer.
(d) Winter.

10. Who does Piranesi meet in Part II by the Western Doors?
(a) The Biscuit-Box Man.
(b) The Folded-Up Child.
(c) Sylvia D'Agostino.
(d) The man he thinks of as The Prophet.

11. What does the Other instruct Piranesi to do if he ever sees anyone else in the labyrinth?
(a) To find Laurence Arne-Sayles right away and tell him about it.
(b) To hide and not to speak to that person or people.
(c) To find the Other right away and tell him about it.
(d) To speak politely to that person or people.

12. What does Piranesi whisper to niches and plinths in Part II, hoping for a sign of recognition?
(a) Addy Domarus.
(b) 16.
(c) Laurence Arne-Sayles.
(d) The Other.

13. What are the white shapes Piranesi sees scattered around the pavement as he makes his way back from the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?
(a) White paint that someone has painted on the floor.
(b) Birds.
(c) Popcorn.
(d) Ripped-up scraps of paper that were journal entries.

14. Why does the Other threaten to stop working with Piranesi in Part II?
(a) Piranesi says he wants to meet new people.
(b) Piranesi says he wants to leave the House.
(c) Piranesi says he can no longer write in his journals.
(d) Piranesi says he does not think they should keep going on the quest for the Great and Secret Knowledge.

15. Who does the Other tell Piranesi Addy Domarus is?
(a) His own grandfather.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A long-dead king.
(d) A Priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Piranesi get an exhilarating inkling of when he visits the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?

2. Who gave Piranesi his name?

3. What does Piranesi do to try to determine if there are really gaps in his memory?

4. Who does Piranesi find a note from in Part II?

5. What word does the Other use for the "halls?"

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