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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. Who does Piranesi think the visitor in Part II is at first?
(a) 16.
(b) The Biscuit-Box man.
(c) The Folded-Up Child.
(d) The Other.

2. What kind of bird comes to the South-Western Halls in Part I?
(a) An eagle.
(b) An albatross.
(c) A sparrow.
(d) A crow.

3. Why does the Other threaten to stop working with Piranesi in Part II?
(a) Piranesi says he wants to meet new people.
(b) Piranesi says he wants to leave the House.
(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.

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

5. What does Piranesi call the person the Other says might visit the House in Part II?
(a) 40.
(b) 32.
(c) 16.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Piranesi often take particular note of about his meetings with the Other in his journals?

4. Why does the Other say the House does not affect him in the same way it affects Piranesi?

5. What stage of the moon does Piranesi see from the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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