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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Piranesi believe 16 lives?
(a) In a far-off region of the House, in his own Halls.
(b) On an ocean island.
(c) In a hall near to Piranesi's own Halls.
(d) In another world.

4. What does Piranesi often take particular note of about his meetings with the Other in his journals?
(a) The Other's suits and clothes.
(b) The Other's breathing patterns.
(c) The Other's accent.
(d) The state of the Other's teeth.

5. What does the Other tell Piranesi about Piranesi in Part II that shocks him?
(a) He knows where Piranesi can meet a lot of new people.
(b) He thinks Piranesi is a good musician.
(c) Piranesi often forgets about things and conversations they have had in the past.
(d) He knows where Piranesi's mother is.

6. 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) Crows.
(c) Herring gulls.
(d) Albatrosses.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Why does the Other threaten to stop working with Piranesi in Part II?
(a) Piranesi says he does not think they should keep going on the quest for the Great and Secret Knowledge.
(b) Piranesi says he wants to meet new people.
(c) Piranesi says he wants to leave the House.
(d) Piranesi says he can no longer write in his journals.

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

15. What does Piranesi hypothesize about the wisdom of the birds?
(a) It is non-existent.
(b) Perhaps it resides in the flock and not the individual.
(c) It depends on each individual bird.
(d) It is derived from their diet.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Piranesi feel about the dark?

2. 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?

3. What are there very few of in the House?

4. Who does the Other tell Piranesi Addy Domarus is?

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

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