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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 the visitor in Part II tell Piranesi about the Great and Secret Knowledge?
(a) It only exists for children to find it.
(b) It only exists in the real world.
(c) Piranesi might find it, but the Other will not.
(d) It does not exist.

2. Who does the visitor tell Piranesi he will give directions to to get to the House?
(a) The Other.
(b) Piranesi's mother.
(c) 16.
(d) Sylvia D'Agostino.

3. What stage of the moon does Piranesi see from the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?
(a) Waxing crescent.
(b) Half.
(c) Waning crescent.
(d) Full.

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

5. What kinds of birds used the scraps of paper in their nests that Piranesi wants to put together to make a whole and be able to read?
(a) Albatrosses.
(b) Crows.
(c) Herring gulls.
(d) Sparrows.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What task takes up much of Piranesi's time?

3. What does Piranesi mistake the albatross for at first?

4. What does Piranesi's note to the Other say in Part II?

5. Which area of the House is derelict?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Piranesi suggest that the Other use in his important ritual and why does he suggest this?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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