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

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 is like to feel the real love from another human being.
(b) What it is like to feel God's presence.
(c) What it might be like if there were thousands of people in the world instead of just two, as he believes.
(d) What it is like to hear real music.

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

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

4. What does Piranesi think the House originally may have intended the Folded-Up Child for?
(a) As a doctor to treat his illnesses.
(b) As a potential wife for him.
(c) As a child he could raise.
(d) As a fortune-teller to keep him company.

5. What does Piranesi do to try to determine if there are really gaps in his memory?
(a) Listen to his recordings.
(b) Read back through his journals.
(c) Venture back to his original world.
(d) Seek the counsel of other friends.

6. How does Piranesi feel about the presence of the dead in the House?
(a) It is sad.
(b) It is consolatory.
(c) He is indifferent to it.
(d) He is scared by it.

7. What kinds of clothes does the Other usually wear?
(a) Jeans and t-shirts.
(b) Protective hazard suits.
(c) Police officer's uniforms.
(d) Well-cut suits.

8. What does Piranesi suggest the Other addressing his ritual invocation to?
(a) The statues.
(b) Himself, Piranesi.
(c) The sun.
(d) A star.

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

10. What does Piranesi do to help the birds build their nest?
(a) Builds them a nest of cotton and logs.
(b) Finds hay for them.
(c) Helps them build the nest with paper.
(d) Dries seaweed and brings it to them.

11. Why does the Other tell Piranesi he might not want to stick around and work with him on one day in Part I?
(a) He is working on a ritual.
(b) He needs privacy to speak to the dead of the House.
(c) He is cooking and not everyone likes his kind of food.
(d) He is singing and he does not have the best voice.

12. How does Piranesi feel about the dark?
(a) He will go in to dark spaces to try to find a way out of the House.
(b) He will go into dark spaces only to pray.
(c) He loves it.
(d) He does not like it and it slightly scares him.

13. What does the visitor in Part II tell Piranesi about the Great and Secret Knowledge?
(a) Piranesi might find it, but the Other will not.
(b) It only exists in the real world.
(c) It only exists for children to find it.
(d) It does not exist.

14. Where is Piranesi's starting point for the numbering of the Halls?
(a) The Ninety-Second Hall to the North.
(b) The Hall with the coalescing tides.
(c) The Hall with the Fox statues.
(d) The First Vestibule.

15. What kinds of birds used the scraps of paper in their nests that Piranesi wants to put together to make a whole and be able to read?
(a) Crows.
(b) Herring gulls.
(c) Albatrosses.
(d) Sparrows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Other tell Piranesi he might be forced to do if Piranesi talks to 16?

2. What revelation comes to Piranesi on his way back from the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?

3. Who does Piranesi think the visitor in Part II is at first?

4. What kind of bird comes to the South-Western Halls in Part I?

5. Who does Piranesi show his new shoes to?

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