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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 remember the Prophet having told him about what would happen the closer 16 gets to Piranesi?
(a) The more mad Piranesi would become.
(b) The more joyful Ketterley would become.
(c) The more dangerous Ketterley will become.
(d) The more hungry Piranesi would become.

2. What does Piranesi take out of his hair?
(a) The gray, using hair dye.
(b) The lint.
(c) Shells and ornaments.
(d) The lice.

3. How does Piranesi extricate the strips of paper from the birds' nests?
(a) With warm water and care.
(b) With glue.
(c) With bleach.
(d) With mussel broth.

4. What is the name of one of D'Agostino's films?
(a) Fellegrino.
(b) Lupin.
(c) Stars and Bars.
(d) Moon/Wood.

5. 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 long fantasies of revenge against the Other.
(d) He loses himself in fantasies about what his past life might have been like.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What date was the longest journal entry about Ketterly for?

3. What do Piranesi's journals say Matthew Rose Sorensen studied?

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

5. How does Piranesi account for his own understanding of words in his journals that are unfamiliar to him at first?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is James Ritter?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Piranesi tell 16 in his first written message to 16?

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