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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 83 | Part 2 Chapter 84 | Part 2 Chapter 85.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What else did Pi catch besides fish?
(a) Turtles.
(b) Sharks.
(c) Birds.
(d) Eels.

2. What did Pi plan to do with Richard Parker the night after he finished the raft?
(a) Kill him and bury him on land.
(b) Keep him around for protection.
(c) Get rid of him and have the lifeboat to himself.
(d) Kill him and cast him off onto the raft, adrift in the sea.

3. How did Richard Parker react when Pi shouted a greeting to him?
(a) Responded with the same sounds as before.
(b) Came closer to Pi to see what Pi wanted.
(c) Turned away from Pi, silent.
(d) Growled and roared.

4. As night fell on his first day in the lifeboat, why did Pi become scared?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) It would be dark and rescue boats wouldn't see him.
(c) He didn't know what would happen.
(d) He knew the hyena was capable of hurting him.

5. Who were the two men Pi called the "prophets of his youth"?
(a) Mamji and Pi's father.
(b) Satish Kumar, the atheist, and Mamji.
(c) Satish Kumar, the Sufi, and Mamji.
(d) Satish Kumar, the atheist, and Satish Kumar, the Sufi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Pi do when he didn't feel as welcome to his interfaith practices as before?

2. What did Richard Parker kill while Pi was building the raft?

3. During the first night on the lifeboat, what did the hyena do?

4. Why did Pi give generously to the tiger at the cost of his own hunger and thirst?

5. What event showed that fortune was with Pi?

(see the answer key)

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