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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 101 - 150).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the white shapes Piranesi sees scattered around the pavement as he makes his way back from the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?
(a) Popcorn.
(b) White paint that someone has painted on the floor.
(c) Birds.
(d) Ripped-up scraps of paper that were journal entries.

2. What does the visitor in Part II tell Piranesi his world is?
(a) A Metaphorical World.
(b) A Distributary World.
(c) An Elistist World.
(d) An Evil World.

3. Who discovered that Arne-Sayles was keeping a prisoner in his house?
(a) Arne-Sayles's brother.
(b) Piranesi.
(c) Arne-Sayles's students.
(d) Arne-Sayles's housekeeper.

4. What does Piranesi use to number the journals in Part III?
(a) White gel pen.
(b) Red ink pen.
(c) Black Sharpie.
(d) Yellow paint.

5. What kinds of birds used the scraps of paper in their nests that Piranesi wants to put together to make a whole and be able to read?
(a) Herring gulls.
(b) Sparrows.
(c) Crows.
(d) Albatrosses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following journal entries of Piranesi's was James Ritter mentioned in?

2. Why does the Other tell Piranesi he did not tell him 16 is a woman?

3. What does Piranesi write in his first note to 16?

4. Why does Piranesi stop writing in his journal in the final month of the last year?

5. Who was the fiance of the student who disappeared, for which there is an entry in Piranesi's journal in Part III?

(see the answer key)

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