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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. Which one is Piranesi's favorite statue?
(a) The Minotaurs.
(b) The Fox.
(c) The men emerging from the wall.
(d) The Faun.

2. Why does Piranesi stop writing in his journal in the final month of the last year?
(a) The Other forbade him to write.
(b) He had nothing to write about.
(c) He lost his pens.
(d) His hands were too cold from the winter weather.

3. Why does Piranesi think the House gives more to the Other than to him?
(a) The Other knows the person who runs the House.
(b) The Other must do rituals to extract things from the House.
(c) The Other does not know how to take care of himself like Piranesi does.
(d) The Other pays the House.

4. What does Piranesi mistake the albatross for at first?
(a) An angel.
(b) Death.
(c) A vision of a shining white cross.
(d) His mother.

5. What is it about the woman and beehive statue that gives Piranesi a sense of queasiness?
(a) The woman is in a grave.
(b) A bee is stinging her.
(c) The woman is about to be attacked by a swarm of bees.
(d) A bee crawls over her left eye.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Other instruct Piranesi to do if he ever sees anyone else in the labyrinth?

2. What is the Other on a quest after?

3. What does the visitor in Part II tell Piranesi his world is?

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

5. Which area of the House is derelict?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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