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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. Why does the Other threaten to stop working with Piranesi in Part II?
(a) Piranesi says he wants to leave the House.
(b) Piranesi says he wants to meet new people.
(c) Piranesi says he can no longer write in his journals.
(d) Piranesi says he does not think they should keep going on the quest for the Great and Secret Knowledge.

2. What does the Other tell Piranesi he might be forced to do if Piranesi talks to 16?
(a) Take all of Piranesi's journals and burn them.
(b) Make Piranesi go to jail.
(c) Kill Piranesi.
(d) Take Piranesi to another world.

3. Why does Piranesi stop writing in his journal in the final month of the last year?
(a) His hands were too cold from the winter weather.
(b) He had nothing to write about.
(c) The Other forbade him to write.
(d) He lost his pens.

4. What does Laurence want directions to in his note in Part II?
(a) The library.
(b) The statue of the Fox teaching other creatures.
(c) The Ninety-Second Vestibule in the North-West Hall.
(d) The place where the tides coalesce.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Piranesi do to try to determine if there are really gaps in his memory?

3. Which season is challenging for Piranesi?

4. Which statue saves Piranesi's life when he falls?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does the Other tell Piranesi that the House does not affect him as it does Piranesi?

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

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

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

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

10. How does Laurence Arne-Sayles describe his work in Part I?

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