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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Piranesi and the Other often meet?
(a) The Vestibule with the fox statues.
(b) The Ninety-Second South-Western Hall.
(c) The Thirty-Third North-Eastern Hall.
(d) The Second South-Western Hall.

2. What stage of the moon does Piranesi see from the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?
(a) Waning crescent.
(b) Half.
(c) Waxing crescent.
(d) Full.

3. Who does Piranesi meet in Part II by the Western Doors?
(a) The man he thinks of as The Prophet.
(b) The Folded-Up Child.
(c) The Biscuit-Box Man.
(d) Sylvia D'Agostino.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the visitor suggest Piranesi do to the Other?

2. What does Piranesi eat in the House?

3. What kinds of birds used the scraps of paper in their nests that Piranesi wants to put together to make a whole and be able to read?

4. What does Laurence want directions to in his note in Part II?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What rare event does Piranesi witness in Part I in the House?

2. What does Piranesi find scattered in the Eighty-Eighth Western Hall that puzzles and intrigues him?

3. Who wrote the note Piranesi finds in the House in Part II, and what does the note ask?

4. Who does Piranesi think the person he meets by chance in Part II in the House is?

5. What does the Other tell Piranesi about himself in Part II that shocks and unsettles Piranesi?

6. What does the Other ask Piranesi about in the section titled "The Other" that Piranesi is puzzled about?

7. Why does the Other bring new shoes to Piranesi?

8. Why does the Other tell Piranesi that the House does not affect him as it does Piranesi?

9. How does Laurence Arne-Sayles describe his work in Part I?

10. What is Piranesi's relationship with the birds in the House?

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