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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's note to the Other say in Part II?
(a) He is now going to hide from the Other.
(b) He will not keep helping the Other with his work.
(c) He will keep helping the Other with his work.
(d) He needs to get out of this House for a while.

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

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

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

5. Who does Piranesi meet in Part II by the Western Doors?
(a) The Biscuit-Box Man.
(b) Sylvia D'Agostino.
(c) The man he thinks of as The Prophet.
(d) The Folded-Up Child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What revelation comes to Piranesi on his way back from the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?

2. Which creatures does Piranesi sometimes talk to in the House?

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

4. What is it about the woman and beehive statue that gives Piranesi a sense of queasiness?

5. What does the box the Other brings a gift to Piranesi in have on the outside of it?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Piranesi get his food?

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