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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. How does Piranesi feel about the Other's attitude towards the House?
(a) He thinks it is disrespectful.
(b) He thinks it is appropriately reverent.
(c) He is indifferent to it.
(d) He thinks it is suspicious.

2. Why does the Other say the House does not affect him in the same way it affects Piranesi?
(a) The Other has taken certain precautions against it.
(b) The Other has been immunized with medication against the House's influence.
(c) The Other is just smarter than Piranesi.
(d) The Other leaves the House often.

3. Which creatures does Piranesi sometimes talk to in the House?
(a) The birds.
(b) The cats.
(c) The insects.
(d) The dogs.

4. Who does Piranesi show his new shoes to?
(a) The crows.
(b) Laurence Arne-Sayles.
(c) 16.
(d) Sylvia D'Agostino.

5. What word does the Other use for the "halls?"
(a) Apartments.
(b) Holes.
(c) Rooms.
(d) Spaces.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following does the Other ask Piranesi for in Part I?

3. What is the Other on a quest after?

4. Who does Piranesi think is the Sixteenth Person in the beginning of Part I?

5. Who gave Piranesi his name?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the Other trying to accomplish with Piranesi's help?

3. What does Piranesi see in the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall that awes him?

4. What significant suggestion does Piranesi make to the Other about his work in Part II?

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

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

7. What is the thing that Piranesi knows but always forgets about his world?

8. What is Piranesi's favorite statue, and what does he think it means?

9. What does the Other ask Prianesi to promise him in Part II?

10. What is the Other afraid of in the House?

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