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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Piranesi call the person the Other says might visit the House in Part II?
(a) 32.
(b) 40.
(c) 16.
(d) 10.
2. Who does the Other tell Piranesi Addy Domarus is?
(a) A Priest.
(b) A long-dead king.
(c) His own grandfather.
(d) A doctor.
3. Which statue saves Piranesi's life when he falls?
(a) The Faun.
(b) The Minotaur.
(c) The Fox teaching creatures.
(d) The Trampled Man.
4. What revelation comes to Piranesi on his way back from the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?
(a) He needs to try to meet another person besides the Other.
(b) The Other might be his enemy.
(c) The Great and Secret Knowledge seems insignificant to him now.
(d) He does not know where his own mother is.
5. Where do Piranesi and the Other often meet?
(a) The Vestibule with the fox statues.
(b) The Ninety-Second South-Western Hall.
(c) The Second South-Western Hall.
(d) The Thirty-Third North-Eastern Hall.
6. What does the box the Other brings a gift to Piranesi in have on the outside of it?
(a) The name of a sports team and logo.
(b) A pretzel.
(c) A flower.
(d) The word "aquarium" and an octopus.
7. What does Piranesi suggest the Other addressing his ritual invocation to?
(a) The statues.
(b) Himself, Piranesi.
(c) The sun.
(d) A star.
8. Where is Piranesi's starting point for the numbering of the Halls?
(a) The Hall with the coalescing tides.
(b) The Hall with the Fox statues.
(c) The Ninety-Second Hall to the North.
(d) The First Vestibule.
9. How does Piranesi feel about the presence of the dead in the House?
(a) He is scared by it.
(b) It is consolatory.
(c) He is indifferent to it.
(d) It is sad.
10. What are there very few of in the House?
(a) Dark spaces.
(b) Plinths.
(c) Places to play music.
(d) Statues.
11. What kinds of clothes does the Other usually wear?
(a) Police officer's uniforms.
(b) Well-cut suits.
(c) Protective hazard suits.
(d) Jeans and t-shirts.
12. Which of the following does the Other ask Piranesi for in Part I?
(a) A song.
(b) Data.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Food.
13. How does Piranesi feel about the dark?
(a) He will go in to dark spaces to try to find a way out of the House.
(b) He loves it.
(c) He will go into dark spaces only to pray.
(d) He does not like it and it slightly scares him.
14. What does the Other tell Piranesi about Piranesi in Part II that shocks him?
(a) Piranesi often forgets about things and conversations they have had in the past.
(b) He knows where Piranesi can meet a lot of new people.
(c) He thinks Piranesi is a good musician.
(d) He knows where Piranesi's mother is.
15. 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 might be like if there were thousands of people in the world instead of just two, as he believes.
(b) What it is like to hear real music.
(c) What it is like to feel God's presence.
(d) What it is like to feel the real love from another human being.
Short Answer Questions
1. What event does Piranesi witness in Part I that only happens once every eight years?
2. What does the visitor in Part II tell Piranesi his world is?
3. What does the visitor in Part II tell Piranesi about the Great and Secret Knowledge?
4. What sometimes drifts into Piranesi's area of the House where he sleeps?
5. Who does the visitor tell Piranesi the Other really is?
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