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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first writing of 16's that Piranesi comes across?
(a) A note to the police.
(b) Directions 16 seems to have written to himself.
(c) A note to Laurence Arne-Sayles.
(d) A warning for the Other.

2. Why was 16's voice not at all what Piranesi was expecting?
(a) The voice is very, very deep.
(b) The voice is very familiar to him.
(c) He realizes 16 is speaking in a language other than his own.
(d) He realizes 16 is a woman.

3. What does 16 use to write her one-line message for Piranesi in Part IV?
(a) Shells.
(b) Sand.
(c) Chalk.
(d) Pebbles.

4. Who was the only other person to allegedly be able to get to the other world by altering a state of mind?
(a) Ketterley.
(b) Stanley Ovenden.
(c) James Ritter.
(d) Sylvia D'Agostino.

5. Why does Ketterley say Arne-Sayles most often described the other world as a labyrinth?
(a) Because of its association with the stars.
(b) Because of its association with academia.
(c) Because of its references to American literature.
(d) Because of its associations with a vision of cosmic grandeur.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who discovered that Arne-Sayles was keeping a prisoner in his house?

2. What name is the Other shouting in Part III when Piranesi comes upon him?

3. How many years did Arne-Sayles spend in prison?

4. What does the Other say would happen in 16 was killed during the momentous event Piranesi predicts in Part IV?

5. What does Ketterley do when he spirits Sorensen to the other world?

Short Essay Questions

1. What overriding problem does Piranesi have regarding the Other in Part III?

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

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

4. What does Piranesi hear the Other shouting at 16 in Part III?

5. Why does Piranesi resolve to take better care of himself in Part III?

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

7. What does Piranesi tell 16 in his first written message to 16?

8. What message does 16 write to Piranesi that jogs Piranesi's memory in Part IV?

9. Why did Arne-Sayles go to prison?

10. What puzzles Piranesi about the organization of his journals in Part III?

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