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

2. What does Piranesi use to number the journals in Part III?
(a) Yellow paint.
(b) Red ink pen.
(c) White gel pen.
(d) Black Sharpie.

3. Where were the early volumes of D'Agostino's journals kept?
(a) The Royal Museum.
(b) The House Piranesi lives in.
(c) Arne-Sayles's house.
(d) Her parents' house.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Ketterley say so many people always use in reference to Arne-Sayles?

2. What does reading his journals over again in Part III convince Piranesi the Other was right about?

3. How does Piranesi extricate the strips of paper from the birds' nests?

4. How often does Piranesi index his journal entries?

5. What does Piranesi practice in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who does Piranesi begin to realize the Other really is?

3. In Part III, what does the Other tell Piranesi about 16 that shocks and appalls Piranesi?

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

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

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

7. What was the relationship between Sylvia D'Agostino and Laurence Arne-Sayles?

8. Who is James Ritter?

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

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

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