Piranesi Test | Final Test - Hard

Susanna Clarke
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 161 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Piranesi Test | Final Test - Hard

Susanna Clarke
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 161 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Who discovered that Arne-Sayles was keeping a prisoner in his house?

2. Who does Piranesi think might have written the words on the scraps of paper he puts together?

3. Why is the Other unconcerned about the event Piranesi predicts in Part IV?

4. How does Piranesi's journal describe D'Agostino's appearance?

5. Who has already written a book about Arne-Sayles, according to Piranesi's journals?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What comforts Piranesi in Part III when he feels much confusion about his own memories and his hazy past?

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

4. How does Piranesi know someone else has been in the House in Part III?

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

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

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

8. What does Piranesi do with the chalk message from 16?

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

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

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

How does Piranesi react when the Other tells him he suffers from periodic amnesia, and what does the Other say is its cause? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think Matthew Rose Sorensen/Piranesi cautions Raphael not to "disappear" at the end of the novel, and what does he really mean by this (243)? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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