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

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

3. Who does Piranesi find a note from in Part II?
(a) A person named James.
(b) A person named Laurence.
(c) A person named Sylvia.
(d) A person named Ryan.

4. Why does Piranesi venture to the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?
(a) To see if he can hear music there as he did once before.
(b) To find food.
(c) To find 16.
(d) To see if he can view starts from there, per the Other's request.

5. Where do Piranesi and the Other often meet?
(a) The Second South-Western Hall.
(b) The Ninety-Second South-Western Hall.
(c) The Thirty-Third North-Eastern Hall.
(d) The Vestibule with the fox statues.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which one is Piranesi's favorite statue?

3. What does Piranesi think the House originally may have intended the Folded-Up Child for?

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

5. What word does the Other use for the "halls?"

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

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

5. How does Piranesi get his food?

6. What does the Other tell Piranesi about himself in Part II that shocks and unsettles Piranesi?

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

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

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

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

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