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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 is derived from their diet.
(d) It depends on each individual bird.

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

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

4. 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 in a grave.
(c) A bee crawls over her left eye.
(d) The woman is about to be attacked by a swarm of bees.

5. 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) Finds hay for them.
(d) Dries seaweed and brings it to them.

6. Who does the visitor tell Piranesi the Other really is?
(a) James Ritter.
(b) Val Ketterley.
(c) His father.
(d) Sarah Raphael.

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

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

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

10. 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 leave the House.
(c) Piranesi says he can no longer write in his journals.
(d) Piranesi says he wants to meet new people.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the visitor tell Piranesi he will give directions to to get to the House?

2. Where is Piranesi's starting point for the numbering of the Halls?

3. What does Piranesi have to brave to find food?

4. What task takes up much of Piranesi's time?

5. What is the Other on a quest after?

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