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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Why does Piranesi think the Other has asked him about Batter-Sea?
(a) He thinks it is a control question in his data-collecting.
(b) He thinks it might be where he was born.
(c) He thinks it is where the Other was born.
(d) He thinks it means something important to the Other.

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

13. 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) A doctor.
(d) He does not know, but he addresses the Sixteenth Person as "you."

14. 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.

15. What does Piranesi think the House originally may have intended the Folded-Up Child for?
(a) As a fortune-teller to keep him company.
(b) As a child he could raise.
(c) As a potential wife for him.
(d) As a doctor to treat his illnesses.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does the visitor tell Piranesi the Other really is?

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

4. Who does Piranesi find a note from in Part II?

5. What revelation comes to Piranesi on his way back from the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?

(see the answer keys)

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