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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 is the Other on a quest after?
(a) The Kingship.
(b) The Smorgasboard.
(c) The Ritual.
(d) The Great and Secret Knowledge.

2. Where does Piranesi believe 16 lives?
(a) In a far-off region of the House, in his own Halls.
(b) In a hall near to Piranesi's own Halls.
(c) In another world.
(d) On an ocean island.

3. What event does Piranesi witness in Part I that only happens once every eight years?
(a) The lunar eclipse.
(b) The solar eclipse.
(c) The joining of the tides.
(d) The setting of two suns.

4. Why does Piranesi think the Other has asked him about Batter-Sea?
(a) He thinks it is where the Other was born.
(b) He thinks it means something important to the Other.
(c) He thinks it is a control question in his data-collecting.
(d) He thinks it might be where he was born.

5. What does Piranesi do to help the birds build their nest?
(a) Helps them build the nest with paper.
(b) Dries seaweed and brings it to them.
(c) Builds them a nest of cotton and logs.
(d) Finds hay for them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Piranesi think the House originally may have intended the Folded-Up Child for?

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

4. Which season is challenging for Piranesi?

5. Who gave Piranesi his name?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Piranesi think is strange about the fact that the Other calls him Piranesi?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does the other person Piranesi meets in the House in Part II tell him about the Great and Secret Knowledge?

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

10. How does Piranesi get his food?

(see the answer keys)

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