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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 image does Piranesi see when he reads the message 16 writes to him in Part IV?
(a) A group of wolves prowling.
(b) Many statues of the House converging on him.
(c) Many lights, rain pouring down on him, and a junction of many streets with buildings all around.
(d) Lakes and mountains.

2. How many pages associated with Ketterley in Piranesi's journals are missing?
(a) 50.
(b) 145.
(c) 32.
(d) 67.

3. What are some words from his journal entries that particularly confuse Piranesi?
(a) Concepts like betrayal and love.
(b) Place names like Birmingham and Perugia.
(c) Nouns like car and sidewalk.
(d) Adjectives like sly and silly.

4. How does Piranesi lose himself in Part IV?
(a) He loses himself in his sorrow at having lost his mother.
(b) He loses himself in his joy.
(c) He loses himself in fantasies about what his past life might have been like.
(d) He loses himself in long fantasies of revenge against the Other.

5. What does Piranesi realize has happened to his message for 16 about the flood?
(a) It has been re-written, but with different dates.
(b) It has been recorded in audio format and it is playing through the House all the time.
(c) It has been erased.
(d) It has been ammended.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is one of Laurence Arne-Sayles's most devoted students?

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

3. Where was Sylvia D'Agostino born, according to Piranesi's journal?

4. What is the name of one of D'Agostino's films?

5. Where did Arne-Sayles assign D'Agostino a room in his house, according to Piranesi's journals?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why did Arne-Sayles go to prison?

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