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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kinds of clothes does the Other usually wear?
(a) Well-cut suits.
(b) Police officer's uniforms.
(c) Jeans and t-shirts.
(d) Protective hazard suits.

2. 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 does not like it and it slightly scares him.
(d) He will go into dark spaces only to pray.

3. What sometimes drifts into Piranesi's area of the House where he sleeps?
(a) Cats.
(b) Clouds.
(c) Other people.
(d) Ghosts.

4. Why does the Other say the House does not affect him in the same way it affects Piranesi?
(a) The Other has taken certain precautions against it.
(b) The Other has been immunized with medication against the House's influence.
(c) The Other is just smarter than Piranesi.
(d) The Other leaves the House often.

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

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

7. What word does the Other use for the "halls?"
(a) Spaces.
(b) Rooms.
(c) Apartments.
(d) Holes.

8. What is it about the woman and beehive statue that gives Piranesi a sense of queasiness?
(a) A bee is stinging her.
(b) The woman is about to be attacked by a swarm of bees.
(c) A bee crawls over her left eye.
(d) The woman is in a grave.

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

10. 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.

11. 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?
(a) Ripped-up scraps of paper that were journal entries.
(b) Birds.
(c) White paint that someone has painted on the floor.
(d) Popcorn.

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

13. 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) The word "aquarium" and an octopus.
(c) A flower.
(d) A pretzel.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Piranesi use to weigh down his note to Laurence in Part II?

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

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

5. 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?

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