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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What have both the Other and the Prophet said the House is a source of?
(a) Contentment.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Madness and forgetfulness.
(d) Malice.

2. Who discovered that Arne-Sayles was keeping a prisoner in his house?
(a) Arne-Sayles's housekeeper.
(b) Arne-Sayles's brother.
(c) Arne-Sayles's students.
(d) Piranesi.

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

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

5. 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 warning for the Other.
(d) A note to the police.

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

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

8. What does Ketterley suggest he and Sorensen do just as Sorensen is preparing to leave his house?
(a) Eat together.
(b) Drink alcohol together.
(c) Have sex.
(d) Perform the ritual.

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

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

11. How has Piranesi always thought of himself?
(a) As a fighter.
(b) As a lover.
(c) As an artist.
(d) As a scientist.

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

13. What does Sorensen tell Ketterley he is primarily interested in?
(a) Classics.
(b) Transgressive ideas.
(c) Music.
(d) Mathematics.

14. 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) Take a photo of it for the Other.
(c) Report it to the police.
(d) Read it in its entirety.

15. Who is Piranesi stunned to find in his journal index in Part III?
(a) 16.
(b) Matthew Rose Sorensen.
(c) Stanley Ovenden.
(d) Sylvia D'Agostino.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name is the Other shouting in Part III when Piranesi comes upon him?

2. Who does Piranesi think the surprising smell in Part III belongs to?

3. Where does Piranesi keep his journals?

4. How often does Piranesi index his journal entries?

5. How many entries for Laurence Arne-Sayles are there in Piranesi's journals?

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