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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 write in his first note to 16?
(a) To contact the Other.
(b) To watch his own back because the Other wants to kill him.
(c) To contact Laurence Arne-Sayles.
(d) To leave him alone and reflect on 16's own wickedness.

2. What is the title of Arne-Sayles's book that Piranesi includes some extracts from in his journals?
(a) The Bones Rituals.
(b) The Half-Seen Door.
(c) The Great and Secret Knowledge.
(d) The Magic Night.

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

4. Why does Ketterley say Arne-Sayles most often described the other world as a labyrinth?
(a) Because of its associations with a vision of cosmic grandeur.
(b) Because of its association with academia.
(c) Because of its association with the stars.
(d) Because of its references to American literature.

5. Why is the Other unconcerned about the event Piranesi predicts in Part IV?
(a) He is used to fires.
(b) He will not be there in the House that day, so he will not be harmed.
(c) He tells Piranesi he is immune to all harm.
(d) He does not think the lunar eclipse can harm him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What event does Piranesi realize is going to occur in just a few days' time in Part IV?

3. How does Piranesi's journal describe D'Agostino's appearance?

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

5. Why was 16's voice not at all what Piranesi was expecting?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Maurizio Giussani and how does Piranesi find out about him?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Piranesi resolve to take better care of himself in Part III?

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

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