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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What gift does the Other bring for Piranesi in Part II that he loves?
2. What does the Other tell Piranesi he might be forced to do if Piranesi talks to 16?
3. What sometimes drifts into Piranesi's area of the House where he sleeps?
4. How does Piranesi feel about the Other's attitude towards the House?
5. What is the Other on a quest after?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Piranesi think the Other has so many more things and conveniences that he himself does?
2. What does Piranesi suggest that the Other use in his important ritual and why does he suggest this?
3. What is the thing that Piranesi knows but always forgets about his world?
4. What does the other person Piranesi meets in the House in Part II tell him about the Great and Secret Knowledge?
5. What does Piranesi find scattered in the Eighty-Eighth Western Hall that puzzles and intrigues him?
6. What does the Other ask Piranesi about in the section titled "The Other" that Piranesi is puzzled about?
7. Who wrote the note Piranesi finds in the House in Part II, and what does the note ask?
8. Why does the Other tell Piranesi that the House does not affect him as it does Piranesi?
9. How does Laurence Arne-Sayles describe his work in Part I?
10. What are the only things Piranesi has witnessed outside the House?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are some of the most striking and important differences Piranesi notes between himself and The Other in the beginning of the novel, when Piranesi believes the Other to be living in the same House as he does? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
What are some characteristics of Piranesi's world in general and the House specifically that set it apart from the world the reader knows? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Why is it particularly egregious and cruel that Arne-Sayles encountered Piranesi in the House but did not rescue him right then? How does Piranesi/Matthew Rose Sorensen react to the realization that Arne-Sayles could have, and probably should have, saved him? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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