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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 51 - 100).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Piranesi think the House gives more to the Other than to him?
(a) The Other must do rituals to extract things from the House.
(b) The Other pays the House.
(c) The Other does not know how to take care of himself like Piranesi does.
(d) The Other knows the person who runs the House.

2. Where is Piranesi's starting point for the numbering of the Halls?
(a) The First Vestibule.
(b) The Ninety-Second Hall to the North.
(c) The Hall with the coalescing tides.
(d) The Hall with the Fox statues.

3. Who wrote the book The Magician's Nephew that Clarke quotes from in Part I?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) C.S. Lewis.
(d) Charles Dickens.

4. Who does Piranesi show his new shoes to?
(a) The crows.
(b) Laurence Arne-Sayles.
(c) Sylvia D'Agostino.
(d) 16.

5. What does Piranesi often take particular note of about his meetings with the Other in his journals?
(a) The state of the Other's teeth.
(b) The Other's accent.
(c) The Other's suits and clothes.
(d) The Other's breathing patterns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Other tell Piranesi he might be forced to do if Piranesi talks to 16?

2. What sometimes drifts into Piranesi's area of the House where he sleeps?

3. Why does the Other say the House does not affect him in the same way it affects Piranesi?

4. How does Piranesi feel about the presence of the dead in the House?

5. What revelation comes to Piranesi on his way back from the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in Part II?

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