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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Piranesi think might have written the words on the scraps of paper he puts together?
(a) Laurence Arne-Sayles.
(b) The Other.
(c) One of the people who used to be the bones in the House.
(d) 16.

2. What does Piranesi do to warn 16 about the momentous event he predicts in Part IV?
(a) Waits for her to appear in the vestibule to speak to her.
(b) Asks the Biscuit-Box Man to find and warn her.
(c) Writes her a note.
(d) Asks the Other to find and warn her.

3. What does Piranesi finally understand about the Other's ability to resist the degenerative effects of the House?
(a) He has medication to help him.
(b) He does not live in the House.
(c) He has rituals to protect him.
(d) He has a friend who protects him.

4. What does Piranesi write in his first note to 16?
(a) To leave him alone and reflect on 16's own wickedness.
(b) To contact Laurence Arne-Sayles.
(c) To contact the Other.
(d) To watch his own back because the Other wants to kill him.

5. Who does Piranesi see the word Battersea associated with in his journals?
(a) D'Agostino.
(b) 16.
(c) Arne-Sayles.
(d) Ketterley.

6. How does Piranesi come to predict the event that is going to occur shortly in Part IV?
(a) By recording the temperature differentials in the Great Halls.
(b) By reading the books the Other has left for him.
(c) By watching the celestial bodies.
(d) By consulting the Table of Tides he keeps.

7. Who does Piranesi come to the conclusion that the person he refers to as The Prophet really is?
(a) The Other.
(b) Sylvia D'Agostino.
(c) Raphael.
(d) Laurence Arne-Sayles.

8. What does reading his journals over again in Part III convince Piranesi the Other was right about?
(a) Sarah Raphael was coming to save Piranesi.
(b) Laurence Arne-Sayles was like a God.
(c) Piranesi was probably from another world.
(d) Piranesi had forgotten many things.

9. Who is the student that disappeared, an entry for which appears in Piranesi's journal?
(a) Maurizio Giussani.
(b) Franklin Rosen.
(c) Michael Tarten.
(d) Penny Farady.

10. How does Piranesi account for his own understanding of words in his journals that are unfamiliar to him at first?
(a) He must have had experience in another world.
(b) The knowledge must have been told to him by the Other.
(c) 16 must have told him about the words when he was not conscious.
(d) The House has enlarged his knowledge.

11. Where was Sylvia D'Agostino born, according to Piranesi's journal?
(a) Scotland.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Italy.
(d) America.

12. How does Arne-Sayles describe the act of remembering in the extract from his book in Piranesi's journals?
(a) Joyful.
(b) Extremely potent.
(c) Excruciating.
(d) Sorrowful.

13. What does Ketterley bring to the Halls to try to save himself from the flood?
(a) A canoe.
(b) An inflatable boat.
(c) A scuba suit and tank.
(d) A length of rope.

14. Who do Piranesi's journals say Ketterley was a student of?
(a) Frangipani.
(b) Piranesi.
(c) D'Agostino.
(d) Arne-Sayles.

15. Why does the Other tell Piranesi he did not tell him 16 is a woman?
(a) He was afraid Piranesi would think she might be his mother.
(b) He was afraid Piranesi might feel sympathy or even love for her.
(c) He was afraid Piranesi would kill her without listening to her.
(d) He was afraid Piranesi might think she was his sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are some words from his journal entries that particularly confuse Piranesi?

2. How does Piranesi begin to think of his relationship with Matthew Rose Sorensen at the end of Part IV?

3. What is the first writing of 16's that Piranesi comes across?

4. Which of the following were some of the jobs James Ritter once worked at?

5. What smell does Sorensen immediately detect in Ketterley's house that seems out of place?

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