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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the Other tell Piranesi he might be forced to do if Piranesi talks to 16?
(a) Kill Piranesi.
(b) Take Piranesi to another world.
(c) Make Piranesi go to jail.
(d) Take all of Piranesi's journals and burn them.

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

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

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

6. Who does the visitor tell Piranesi he will give directions to to get to the House?
(a) Sylvia D'Agostino.
(b) The Other.
(c) Piranesi's mother.
(d) 16.

7. Why does Piranesi think the House gives more to the Other than to him?
(a) The Other does not know how to take care of himself like Piranesi does.
(b) The Other knows the person who runs the House.
(c) The Other must do rituals to extract things from the House.
(d) The Other pays the House.

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

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

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

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

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

13. Why does the Other say it is only a small chance someone else will come to the House?
(a) The House has guards.
(b) He will try to kill anyone who approaches.
(c) The House is veiled in magic.
(d) No one else knows the way there.

14. Who does Piranesi think is the Sixteenth Person in the beginning of Part I?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A deity who created the House.
(c) He does not know, but he addresses the Sixteenth Person as "you."
(d) A doctor.

15. Which of the following does the Other ask Piranesi for in Part I?
(a) Food.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Data.
(d) A song.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Piranesi stop writing in his journal in the final month of the last year?

2. Why does Piranesi think the Other has asked him about Batter-Sea?

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

4. Which statue saves Piranesi's life when he falls?

5. What does Piranesi do to help the birds build their nest?

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