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

2. What sometimes drifts into Piranesi's area of the House where he sleeps?
(a) Ghosts.
(b) Cats.
(c) Other people.
(d) Clouds.

3. What is the Other afraid of in the House?
(a) The wolves.
(b) The enchanting music.
(c) The powerful tides and movement of water.
(d) The statues.

4. What does Piranesi do to try to determine if there are really gaps in his memory?
(a) Seek the counsel of other friends.
(b) Listen to his recordings.
(c) Read back through his journals.
(d) Venture back to his original world.

5. Why does the Other say it is only a small chance someone else will come to the House?
(a) The House is veiled in magic.
(b) The House has guards.
(c) No one else knows the way there.
(d) He will try to kill anyone who approaches.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Piranesi and the Other often meet?

2. How does Piranesi feel about the presence of the dead in the House?

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

4. Why does Piranesi think the House gives more to the Other than to him?

5. Which area of the House is derelict?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What are the only things Piranesi has witnessed outside the House?

6. What is Piranesi determined to explore as much of as he can in his lifetime?

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

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

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

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

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