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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 does Piranesi think the statue of the Faun might be communicating to him in Part III?
(a) Be careful.
(b) You will die soon.
(c) Try to find your way out of here.
(d) Be happy.

2. Which of the following does Piranesi do in preparation for the significant event he has predicted will happen soon in the House?
(a) He gets a warmer coat.
(b) He gets special sunglasses to shield his eyes from the eclipse.
(c) He takes the bones of the dead to higher ground.
(d) He coats himself in water-proof oil.

3. Which of the following is one of Piranesi's favorite statues?
(a) The Giraffe.
(b) The Gorilla.
(c) The Mother.
(d) The Snake and Elephant.

4. Who was the only other person to allegedly be able to get to the other world by altering a state of mind?
(a) Ketterley.
(b) Sylvia D'Agostino.
(c) James Ritter.
(d) Stanley Ovenden.

5. Who is Piranesi stunned to find in his journal index in Part III?
(a) 16.
(b) Matthew Rose Sorensen.
(c) Sylvia D'Agostino.
(d) Stanley Ovenden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Piranesi take out of his hair?

2. What does Ketterley use for the ritual?

3. How often does Piranesi index his journal entries?

4. How does 16 refer to Laurence Arne-Sayles in her note to Piranesi?

5. What does the Other say would happen in 16 was killed during the momentous event Piranesi predicts in Part IV?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Piranesi's journals reveal about Matthew Rose Sorensen?

2. What overriding problem does Piranesi have regarding the Other in Part III?

3. What does Piranesi tell 16 in his first written message to 16?

4. What message does 16 write to Piranesi that jogs Piranesi's memory in Part IV?

5. What comforts Piranesi in Part III when he feels much confusion about his own memories and his hazy past?

6. What startling discovery does Piranesi make in Part IV about the tides?

7. Why does Matthew Rose Sorensen originally visit Dr. Ketterley?

8. How does Piranesi know someone else has been in the House in Part III?

9. Where was the location of the place Arne-Sayles identified as the last place he had stood before rationality "gripped his mind" (152)?

10. What does Piranesi do to try to ensure 16's safety in Part IV?

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