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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 80 | Part 2 Chapter 81 | Part 2 Chapter 82.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Pi do when the sun rose the day after he built his raft?
(a) Prepared to battle the tiger.
(b) Fell asleep exhausted, wrapped in his warm blanket.
(c) Created a fishing line to use to catch food.
(d) Moved closer to the tiger for protection.

2. What did Pi use, lose, and re-create, to protect himself while training the tiger?
(a) A shield made of the locker door.
(b) A shield made of wood from the benches in the boat.
(c) A shield made of part of the raft.
(d) A turtle shell shield.

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

4. What does the author say was strange about the ecosystem in the lifeboat on the second day?
(a) The hyena was in the boat.
(b) The hyena and orangutan existed side by side and ignored each other.
(c) The hyena and a human were in the same boat.
(d) Two wild animals slept in the boat.

5. Symbolically, what does it mean when the storm clears?
(a) That the worst may be over.
(b) That bad things happen to good people.
(c) That good always follows bad.
(d) That there would be no more rain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pi lament to the author that he is forgetting?

2. What happened as starvation began to set in?

3. What was the main character named after?

4. Why does Pi think that the hyena did not attack him?

5. Pi took inventory of what on the boat?

(see the answer key)

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