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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 see the word Battersea associated with in his journals?
(a) 16.
(b) Arne-Sayles.
(c) Ketterley.
(d) D'Agostino.

2. Which of the following were some of the jobs James Ritter once worked at?
(a) Actor, director, and stage hand.
(b) Doctor and nurse.
(c) Model, waiter, barman, and prostitute.
(d) Lawyer, soldier, and accountant.

3. What does 16 use to write her one-line message for Piranesi in Part IV?
(a) Chalk.
(b) Shells.
(c) Pebbles.
(d) Sand.

4. What smell does Sorensen immediately detect in Ketterley's house that seems out of place?
(a) A smell of the forest.
(b) A smell of roses.
(c) A smell of rain, clouds, air, and the sea.
(d) A smell of sandalwood.

5. How has Piranesi always thought of himself?
(a) As a fighter.
(b) As an artist.
(c) As a scientist.
(d) As a lover.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Other propose to Piranesi they kill intruders to the House?

2. How does Piranesi account for his own understanding of words in his journals that are unfamiliar to him at first?

3. Who else does Piranesi want to warn of the momentous event about to happen in Part IV?

4. Who has already written a book about Arne-Sayles, according to Piranesi's journals?

5. What does Piranesi use to number the journals in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dr. Ketterley repeatedly ask Sorensen if anyone knows he is there at his house?

2. What information does Piranesi begin to keep from the Other about 16?

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

4. Why did Arne-Sayles go to prison?

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

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

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

8. What puzzles Piranesi about the organization of his journals in Part III?

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

10. What does Piranesi do with the chalk message from 16?

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