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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. What does Piranesi often take particular note of about his meetings with the Other in his journals?
(a) The Other's accent.
(b) The state of the Other's teeth.
(c) The Other's suits and clothes.
(d) The Other's breathing patterns.

2. What kinds of clothes does the Other usually wear?
(a) Protective hazard suits.
(b) Police officer's uniforms.
(c) Well-cut suits.
(d) Jeans and t-shirts.

3. What does the visitor in Part II tell Piranesi his world is?
(a) A Metaphorical World.
(b) An Evil World.
(c) An Elistist World.
(d) A Distributary World.

4. What does Piranesi hypothesize about the wisdom of the birds?
(a) It depends on each individual bird.
(b) Perhaps it resides in the flock and not the individual.
(c) It is derived from their diet.
(d) It is non-existent.

5. What are the white shapes Piranesi sees scattered around the pavement as he makes his way back from the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?
(a) White paint that someone has painted on the floor.
(b) Birds.
(c) Ripped-up scraps of paper that were journal entries.
(d) Popcorn.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Piranesi feel about the Other's attitude towards the House?

3. How does Piranesi think the birds sometimes try to communicate with him?

4. Why does the Other say it is only a small chance someone else will come to the House?

5. Which one is Piranesi's favorite statue?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Piranesi think the Other has so many more things and conveniences that he himself does?

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

5. Who is the only other person living in the House besides Piranesi, to the best of his knowledge, in Part I?

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

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

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

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

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

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