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

2. Who else does Piranesi want to warn of the momentous event about to happen in Part IV?
(a) 16.
(b) The Biscuit Box Man.
(c) Sylvia D'Agostino.
(d) Arne-Sayles.

3. What does Piransi think his clothes are perfect for?
(a) Keeping up with fashion trends.
(b) Camouflage.
(c) Keeping warm.
(d) Keeping cool.

4. What does 16 use to write her one-line message for Piranesi in Part IV?
(a) Pebbles.
(b) Sand.
(c) Shells.
(d) Chalk.

5. What does Piranesi do to warn 16 about the momentous event he predicts in Part IV?
(a) Waits for her to appear in the vestibule to speak to her.
(b) Writes her a note.
(c) Asks the Other to find and warn her.
(d) Asks the Biscuit-Box Man to find and warn her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Piranesi remember the Prophet having told him about what would happen the closer 16 gets to Piranesi?

3. How many years did Arne-Sayles spend in prison?

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

5. What does Piranesi practice in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What message does 16 write to Piranesi that jogs Piranesi's memory in Part IV?

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

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

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

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