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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Piranesi eat in the House?
(a) The meals the Other brings him.
(b) Seaweed and various mollusks and fish.
(c) The vegetables from his vegetable garden.
(d) The cows he kills.

3. What stage of the moon does Piranesi see from the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?
(a) Waxing crescent.
(b) Waning crescent.
(c) Full.
(d) Half.

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

5. Which area of the House is derelict?
(a) The Vestibules.
(b) The South-Western Halls.
(c) The North-Eastern Halls.
(d) The Drowned Halls.

6. What gift does the Other bring for Piranesi in Part II that he loves?
(a) Food.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Flowers.
(d) A CD player.

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

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

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

10. 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 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 working on a ritual.

11. 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) Albatrosses.
(b) Crows.
(c) Sparrows.
(d) Herring gulls.

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

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

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

15. What is the Other on a quest after?
(a) The Kingship.
(b) The Smorgasboard.
(c) The Great and Secret Knowledge.
(d) The Ritual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Other afraid of in the House?

2. What event does Piranesi witness in Part I that only happens once every eight years?

3. Why does Piranesi venture to the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?

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

5. What does the Other tell Piranesi about Piranesi in Part II that shocks him?

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