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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 Great and Secret Knowledge.
(c) The Ritual.
(d) The Smorgasboard.

2. What does the visitor suggest Piranesi do to the Other?
(a) Bring him to the real world.
(b) Learn from him.
(c) Kill him.
(d) Write more journal entries for him.

3. What does Piranesi hypothesize about the wisdom of the birds?
(a) Perhaps it resides in the flock and not the individual.
(b) It is derived from their diet.
(c) It depends on each individual bird.
(d) It is non-existent.

4. Which area of the House is derelict?
(a) The South-Western Halls.
(b) The Drowned Halls.
(c) The North-Eastern Halls.
(d) The Vestibules.

5. What does Piranesi have to brave to find food?
(a) The wolf-infested halls.
(b) The diseased halls.
(c) The fires.
(d) The tides.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of clothes does the Other usually wear?

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

3. Who does Piranesi meet in Part II by the Western Doors?

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

5. What does the Other tell Piranesi he might be forced to do if Piranesi talks to 16?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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