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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 ask the statues to bring him after his vision of another world in Part IV?
(a) Food.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) A bed.
(d) Water.

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

3. Where was the house Arne-Sayles grew up in?
(a) Lyme Regis.
(b) Charlington.
(c) Essex.
(d) Surrey.

4. How has Piranesi always thought of himself?
(a) As an artist.
(b) As a lover.
(c) As a fighter.
(d) As a scientist.

5. What does Sorensen tell Ketterley he is primarily interested in?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Classics.
(c) Music.
(d) Transgressive ideas.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What scent surprises Piranesi in the First Vestibule in Part III?

3. What does 16 use to write her one-line message for Piranesi in Part IV?

4. Who does Piranesi realize gave him the name Piranesi in Part IV?

5. What does Piranesi think the statue of the Faun might be communicating to him in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why does Dr. Ketterley repeatedly ask Sorensen if anyone knows he is there at his house?

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

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

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