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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following statements is NOT true about Pi's prayer rug?
(a) It reminded him of the sacredness of the earth.
(b) He lost it.
(c) He used it outside.
(d) He used it in the mosque.

2. In Part 1, Chapter 30, what does the author say he learned about Pi when they met?
(a) That Pi was twice divorced.
(b) That Pi's wife's name is Meena and she is a doctor.
(c) That Pi was married.
(d) That Pi did not believe in marriage.

3. Which of the following is true about Pi's family's departure from India?
(a) The whole family was excited about going to Canada.
(b) The ship was delayed in its departure because of weather.
(c) Pi was excited about leaving, but his mother was sad.
(d) Other families on the ship were going to Canada as well.

4. How did Richard Parker end up in the lifeboat with Pi?
(a) He was there before Pi got in.
(b) Pi doesn't know how he got there.
(c) He jumped into the boat from the ship.
(d) Pi helped him swim to the boat by throwing him a life buoy.

5. What did Pi not find after looking around on the boat?
(a) Life jackets.
(b) Tarp.
(c) Food.
(d) Drinking water.

6. What did Pi's father tell him was the second greatest danger in the zoo?
(a) Animal cruelty.
(b) Old buildings.
(c) Man.
(d) Anthropomorphism.

7. When Pi got back into the lifeboat in Part 2, who did he see look out from under the tarp?
(a) The monkey.
(b) The tiger.
(c) The hyena.
(d) The zebra.

8. 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 mother had a Hindu upbringing, but had been schooled as a Presbyterian.
(c) Pi's parents were not very religious.
(d) Pi's father was raised as a Hindu, but had been schooled as a Baptist.

9. What does Pi lament to the author that he is forgetting?
(a) What his father looked like.
(b) What his brother looked like.
(c) What his mother looked like.
(d) What Richard Parker looked like.

10. 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) The paperwork took that long.
(c) No one wanted to buy the zoo.
(d) No one wanted to buy the zoo animals.

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

12. What did Pi build a raft out of?
(a) Life jackets and floating oars.
(b) Oars and floating logs.
(c) Logs and life jackets.
(d) Wood and rope.

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

14. How large was the boat?
(a) 26 feet deep, 8 feet wide, 3.5 feet long.
(b) 10 feet deep, 4 feet wide, 18 feet long.
(c) 3.5 feet deep, 8 feet wide, 26 feet long.
(d) 4 feet deep, 18 feet wide, 10 feet long.

15. Pi took inventory of what on the boat?
(a) A wooden trunk.
(b) The locker.
(c) A cage.
(d) A metal cupboard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when the two Mr. Kumars in Pi's life meet by chance at the zoo?

2. What convinced Pi he wasn't going to die?

3. Which of the following statements is NOT true about Pi's baptism?

4. Which of these events did not occur before the ship sank?

5. As night fell on his first day in the lifeboat, why did Pi become scared?

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