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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does 16 refer to Laurence Arne-Sayles in her note to Piranesi?
(a) As a friend of hers.
(b) As a colleague of hers.
(c) As an occultist.
(d) As Piranesi's father.

2. What do Piranesi's journals say Matthew Rose Sorensen studied?
(a) Biology.
(b) Mathematics and transgressive thinking.
(c) Classics.
(d) Writing.

3. 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) The House has enlarged his knowledge.
(d) 16 must have told him about the words when he was not conscious.

4. What does Piranesi ask the statues to bring him after his vision of another world in Part IV?
(a) Water.
(b) Food.
(c) A bed.
(d) Alcohol.

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

6. Which of the following is one of Piranesi's favorite statues?
(a) The Giraffe.
(b) The Gorilla.
(c) The Snake and Elephant.
(d) The Mother.

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

8. What does Sorensen scream at Ketterley when he finds himself in the other world all of a sudden?
(a) Damn you!
(b) Put it back!
(c) Out!
(d) You will not get away with this!

9. What does 16 use to write her one-line message for Piranesi in Part IV?
(a) Chalk.
(b) Sand.
(c) Pebbles.
(d) Shells.

10. 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) Asks the Other to find and warn her.
(d) Writes her a note.

11. What are some words from his journal entries that particularly confuse Piranesi?
(a) Place names like Birmingham and Perugia.
(b) Nouns like car and sidewalk.
(c) Adjectives like sly and silly.
(d) Concepts like betrayal and love.

12. What does Piranesi remember the Prophet having told him about what would happen the closer 16 gets to Piranesi?
(a) The more joyful Ketterley would become.
(b) The more dangerous Ketterley will become.
(c) The more hungry Piranesi would become.
(d) The more mad Piranesi would become.

13. What event does Piranesi realize is going to occur in just a few days' time in Part IV?
(a) A great flood.
(b) A great fire.
(c) A lunar eclipse.
(d) A solar eclipse.

14. Where does Piranesi keep his journals?
(a) Under his bed.
(b) Near the First Vestibule.
(c) Behind the Faun statue.
(d) On a statue in the North-Eastern Corner in a leather messenger bag.

15. What does Piranesi decide to do with 16's written message to him?
(a) Erase it before he can read it, but only partially.
(b) Report it to the police.
(c) Read it in its entirety.
(d) Take a photo of it for the Other.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the fiance of the student who disappeared, for which there is an entry in Piranesi's journal in Part III?

2. How does Piranesi come to predict the event that is going to occur shortly in Part IV?

3. Who was Stanley Ovenden, according to Piranesi's journal?

4. How has Piranesi always thought of himself?

5. Who does Piranesi think might have written the words on the scraps of paper he puts together?

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