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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 68 | Part 2 Chapter 69 | Part 2 Chapter 70.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Pi end up in the lifeboat?
(a) He was thrown overboard and landed there.
(b) His father put him there as the ship was sinking.
(c) It was his assigned lifeboat and he went there as the ship sank.
(d) He fell off the ship and swam to the lifeboat.

2. What separated Pi from the Tiger on the boat?
(a) A table.
(b) A wall.
(c) A tarp.
(d) A floor.

3. Which of the following statements is NOT true about Pi's baptism?
(a) The actual baptism was, for him, as refreshing as a warm summer rain.
(b) It was an uncomfortable event for Pi.
(c) His father, mother and brother came, even though it was against their will.
(d) The actual baptism involved only a trickle of water poured over his head.

4. After the family sold the zoo, why did it take a year before they could leave India for Canada?
(a) Pi's mother took that long to get the house and everything ready.
(b) No one wanted to buy the zoo.
(c) The paperwork took that long.
(d) No one wanted to buy the zoo animals.

5. What did Pi make the lifeboat more and more into?
(a) A shelter.
(b) A tiger's den.
(c) A home.
(d) A zoo habitat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Pi fail to control as time passed on the liferaft?

2. What is the purpose of the italicized chapters?

3. In Part 1, Chapter 12, what do readers learn about the nameless man?

4. What did Pi bring to the tiger in the morning after they had both had a restless night's sleep?

5. When the hyena began to act strangely, what did Pi do?

(see the answer key)

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