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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 Ketterley bring Sorensen to drink in Part IV?
(a) Soda.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Wine.

2. What adjective does Piranesi use to refer to James Ritter repeatedly?
(a) Forgotten.
(b) Wayward.
(c) Brilliant.
(d) Poor.

3. 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 special sunglasses to shield his eyes from the eclipse.
(b) He coats himself in water-proof oil.
(c) He gets a warmer coat.
(d) He takes the bones of the dead to higher ground.

4. What scent surprises Piranesi in the First Vestibule in Part III?
(a) Perfume that smells of lemons and geranium.
(b) A fecal smell.
(c) The smell of delicious cooking.
(d) The smell of fear.

5. How does the Other propose to Piranesi they kill intruders to the House?
(a) With a gun.
(b) With a rope.
(c) With a knife.
(d) With poison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Piranesi ask the statues to bring him after his vision of another world in Part IV?

2. What is the title of Arne-Sayles's book that Piranesi includes some extracts from in his journals?

3. How many years did Arne-Sayles spend in prison?

4. Which of the following is one of Piranesi's favorite statues?

5. Why does Ketterley say Arne-Sayles most often described the other world as a labyrinth?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did Arne-Sayles go to prison?

4. What does Piranesi hear the Other shouting at 16 in Part III?

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

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

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

8. What does Piranesi have to do in order to collect all the ripped-up scraps of paper from his journals?

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

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

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