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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Piranesi mistake the albatross for at first?
(a) A vision of a shining white cross.
(b) Death.
(c) His mother.
(d) An angel.

2. Who is the Biscuit-Box Man?
(a) The person who delivers food for Piranesi.
(b) A skeleton that resides in the Third North-Western Hall.
(c) The person who lived with Piranesi in the former world.
(d) The person who takes Piranesi's vital signs every week.

3. What is the Other afraid of in the House?
(a) The enchanting music.
(b) The powerful tides and movement of water.
(c) The statues.
(d) The wolves.

4. How does Piranesi think the birds sometimes try to communicate with him?
(a) By leaving food for him.
(b) By flying from statue to statue and trying to communicate meaning to him in this way.
(c) By chirping musical notes.
(d) By scratching letters in the sand with their beaks.

5. What does the box the Other brings a gift to Piranesi in have on the outside of it?
(a) A flower.
(b) The word "aquarium" and an octopus.
(c) The name of a sports team and logo.
(d) A pretzel.

6. Who does Piranesi find a note from in Part II?
(a) A person named Sylvia.
(b) A person named Laurence.
(c) A person named Ryan.
(d) A person named James.

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

8. What do the windows of the House look out upon?
(a) The forest.
(b) Great Courtyards.
(c) The desert.
(d) The sea.

9. What does Piranesi's note to the Other say in Part II?
(a) He is now going to hide from the Other.
(b) He needs to get out of this House for a while.
(c) He will keep helping the Other with his work.
(d) He will not keep helping the Other with his work.

10. 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 does not think they should keep going on the quest for the Great and Secret Knowledge.
(d) Piranesi says he can no longer write in his journals.

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

12. Who gave Piranesi his name?
(a) The Sun.
(b) The Seer.
(c) The Prophet.
(d) The Other.

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

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

15. Why does Piranesi stop writing in his journal in the final month of the last year?
(a) His hands were too cold from the winter weather.
(b) He had nothing to write about.
(c) The Other forbade him to write.
(d) He lost his pens.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What does the visitor in Part II tell Piranesi his world is?

4. What sometimes drifts into Piranesi's area of the House where he sleeps?

5. What does the visitor suggest Piranesi do to the Other?

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