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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 does Piranesi have to brave to find food?
2. What does Piranesi call the person the Other says might visit the House in Part II?
3. Which area of the House is derelict?
4. What sometimes drifts into Piranesi's area of the House where he sleeps?
5. What does Piranesi notice about the yellow leaf he sees on the waters in Part I?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the Other ask Prianesi to promise him in Part II?
2. What does the Other tell Piranesi about himself in Part II that shocks and unsettles Piranesi?
3. What does Piranesi see in the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall that awes him?
4. What is the thing that Piranesi knows but always forgets about his world?
5. What does Piranesi suggest that the Other use in his important ritual and why does he suggest this?
6. Who is the only other person living in the House besides Piranesi, to the best of his knowledge, in Part I?
7. What theory does Piranesi forumulate about the bones of the Folded-Up Child?
8. Who wrote the note Piranesi finds in the House in Part II, and what does the note ask?
9. What does Piranesi think is strange about the fact that the Other calls him Piranesi?
10. What is the Other afraid of in the House?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Which characters in this novel use their power and status to abuse, manipulate, and/or exploit others? Which characters use their positions of authority and power in moral ways? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay exploring how different inhabitants and visitors to the House react to it, including Piranesi, Ketterley, Raphael, James Ritter, and Arne-Sayles, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
"The Beauty of the House is infinite; its Kindness immeasurable," says Piranesi at the very beginning and very end of the novel (4, 245). Write an essay explaining what Piranesi means by this, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
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