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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 singing and he does not have the best voice.
(b) He is cooking and not everyone likes his kind of food.
(c) He is working on a ritual.
(d) He needs privacy to speak to the dead of the House.

2. What does Laurence want directions to in his note in Part II?
(a) The place where the tides coalesce.
(b) The statue of the Fox teaching other creatures.
(c) The library.
(d) The Ninety-Second Vestibule in the North-West Hall.

3. Who does Piranesi think the visitor in Part II is at first?
(a) The Other.
(b) The Biscuit-Box man.
(c) The Folded-Up Child.
(d) 16.

4. How does Piranesi feel about the Other's attitude towards the House?
(a) He thinks it is suspicious.
(b) He is indifferent to it.
(c) He thinks it is disrespectful.
(d) He thinks it is appropriately reverent.

5. 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) Popcorn.
(c) Ripped-up scraps of paper that were journal entries.
(d) Birds.

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

7. What does the visitor in Part II tell Piranesi his world is?
(a) A Metaphorical World.
(b) A Distributary World.
(c) An Elistist World.
(d) An Evil World.

8. Which creatures does Piranesi sometimes talk to in the House?
(a) The insects.
(b) The cats.
(c) The dogs.
(d) The birds.

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

10. What kind of bird comes to the South-Western Halls in Part I?
(a) A sparrow.
(b) A crow.
(c) An eagle.
(d) An albatross.

11. What does Piranesi notice about the yellow leaf he sees on the waters in Part I?
(a) It is decayed.
(b) It has been eaten by a creature already.
(c) It tastes sweet.
(d) Its surface repells water, like something that is meant to stay in the air.

12. 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) Sparrows.
(d) Albatrosses.

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

14. 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 God's presence.
(b) What it is like to hear real music.
(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 feel the real love from another human being.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the windows of the House look out upon?

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

3. What does Piranesi's note to the Other say in Part II?

4. What does Piranesi call the person the Other says might visit the House in Part II?

5. Which area of the House is derelict?

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