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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 was the main character named after?
(a) A famous landmark.
(b) A swimming pool.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) His father.

2. What did Pi say at the meeting of his parents and his religious teachers?
(a) He would think about they said.
(b) He wanted to study more about the religions.
(c) The religions were similar.
(d) He just wanted to love God.

3. Which of the following statements is true about Pi's parents' practice of their religion?
(a) Pi's parents practiced their Hindu religion faithfully all the time.
(b) Pi's parents were not very religious.
(c) Pi's mother had a Hindu upbringing, but had been schooled as a Presbyterian.
(d) Pi's father was raised as a Hindu, but had been schooled as a Baptist.

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

5. When did Pi feel that God was very close to him?
(a) When he was praying in the Christian church.
(b) When he watched the Muslim shopkeeper.
(c) One day when he was riding his bike home from Mr. Kumar's, the Muslim.
(d) When he was praying in the mosque.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Pi was losing hope, his courage rose and what did he no longer fear?

2. How long had Pi been at sea for when he calculated it?

3. What does the author say was strange about the ecosystem in the lifeboat on the second day?

4. What did Pi do to modify the raft?

5. What were two big events in Pi's daily routine?

(see the answer key)

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