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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Piranesi extricate the strips of paper from the birds' nests?
(a) With glue.
(b) With warm water and care.
(c) With bleach.
(d) With mussel broth.

2. What smell does Sorensen immediately detect in Ketterley's house that seems out of place?
(a) A smell of sandalwood.
(b) A smell of rain, clouds, air, and the sea.
(c) A smell of roses.
(d) A smell of the forest.

3. Why is the Other unconcerned about the event Piranesi predicts in Part IV?
(a) He tells Piranesi he is immune to all harm.
(b) He does not think the lunar eclipse can harm him.
(c) He is used to fires.
(d) He will not be there in the House that day, so he will not be harmed.

4. Why does Piranesi keep eating in the end of Part IV, even though he is distraught and does not feel like eating?
(a) He wants to make sure he will be able to swim during the flood.
(b) He wants to gain weight.
(c) He wants to keep his strength up.
(d) He wants to be able to outrun the Other.

5. Where did Arne-Sayles assign D'Agostino a room in his house, according to Piranesi's journals?
(a) Whalley Range.
(b) Bristol.
(c) Surrey.
(d) Essex.

6. Who is one of Laurence Arne-Sayles's most devoted students?
(a) Fabian Gould.
(b) Sylvia D'Agostino.
(c) Marshall Windham.
(d) Charlotte Henry.

7. Which of the following were some of the jobs James Ritter once worked at?
(a) Doctor and nurse.
(b) Model, waiter, barman, and prostitute.
(c) Actor, director, and stage hand.
(d) Lawyer, soldier, and accountant.

8. How does the Other propose to Piranesi they kill intruders to the House?
(a) With a gun.
(b) With a rope.
(c) With poison.
(d) With a knife.

9. What is the name of one of D'Agostino's films?
(a) Moon/Wood.
(b) Stars and Bars.
(c) Lupin.
(d) Fellegrino.

10. Who has already written a book about Arne-Sayles, according to Piranesi's journals?
(a) Angharad Scott.
(b) Valentine Ketterley.
(c) Sylvia D'Agostino.
(d) James Ritter.

11. Who was the only other person to allegedly be able to get to the other world by altering a state of mind?
(a) Ketterley.
(b) Stanley Ovenden.
(c) James Ritter.
(d) Sylvia D'Agostino.

12. What was Laurence Arne-Sayles eventually arrested for?
(a) Robbery.
(b) Kidnapping.
(c) Murder.
(d) Plagiarism.

13. What is the first writing of 16's that Piranesi comes across?
(a) Directions 16 seems to have written to himself.
(b) A note to Laurence Arne-Sayles.
(c) A note to the police.
(d) A warning for the Other.

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

15. Who else does Piranesi want to warn of the momentous event about to happen in Part IV?
(a) The Biscuit Box Man.
(b) 16.
(c) Sylvia D'Agostino.
(d) Arne-Sayles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event does Piranesi realize is going to occur in just a few days' time in Part IV?

2. Who do Piranesi's journals say Ketterley was a student of?

3. Where was the house Arne-Sayles grew up in?

4. Where was Sylvia D'Agostino born, according to Piranesi's journal?

5. Why does Ketterley say Arne-Sayles most often described the other world as a labyrinth?

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