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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 gift does the Other bring for Piranesi in Part II that he loves?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Food.
(c) A CD player.
(d) Shoes.

2. What do the windows of the House look out upon?
(a) The sea.
(b) The forest.
(c) The desert.
(d) Great Courtyards.

3. What does Piranesi often take particular note of about his meetings with the Other in his journals?
(a) The Other's accent.
(b) The state of the Other's teeth.
(c) The Other's suits and clothes.
(d) The Other's breathing patterns.

4. What does Piranesi mistake the albatross for at first?
(a) His mother.
(b) An angel.
(c) Death.
(d) A vision of a shining white cross.

5. 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?
(a) Popcorn.
(b) White paint that someone has painted on the floor.
(c) Ripped-up scraps of paper that were journal entries.
(d) Birds.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the box the Other brings a gift to Piranesi in have on the outside of it?

4. What does Piranesi hypothesize about the wisdom of the birds?

5. Where does Piranesi believe 16 lives?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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