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

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

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

4. Who does Piranesi realize gave him the name Piranesi in Part IV?
(a) 16.
(b) The Other.
(c) Arne-Sayles.
(d) His mother.

5. Who does Piranesi come to the conclusion that the person he refers to as The Prophet really is?
(a) Sylvia D'Agostino.
(b) Laurence Arne-Sayles.
(c) Raphael.
(d) The Other.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the simple, single-line message 16 leaves for Piranesi in Part IV?

3. How does Piranesi begin to think of his relationship with Matthew Rose Sorensen at the end of Part IV?

4. How does Piranesi come to predict the event that is going to occur shortly in Part IV?

5. Who was Stanley Ovenden, according to Piranesi's journal?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is James Ritter?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Piranesi take his ornaments out of his hair in Part III?

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

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