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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What did the tiger do when he and Pi landed on the shore of the small island?
(a) Leapt from the boat and disappeared over a ridge.
(b) Stayed on the boat, skeptical of the island.
(c) Saw a moving animal and raced after it, hunting it down and tearing it apart for food.
(d) Stayed close to Pi, now trained and secure in his presence.

3. What of Pi's disintegrated from the sun and salt?
(a) His raft.
(b) His food.
(c) His boat.
(d) His clothes.

4. What did Pi tell the interviewers after they gave their impressions of Pi's story?
(a) That he didn't believe he was a hero or amazing, just that he was lucky.
(b) A horribly gory tale about the shipwreck and his survival that didn't involve animals.
(c) That it didn't matter, he just wanted to go home.
(d) A story without animals and with four lifeboats and three surviving shipmates.

5. What was an act of deference by the tiger to Pi?
(a) Growling at Pi.
(b) Hiding his feces.
(c) Being silent and gentle with Pi.
(d) Not lashing out at Pi.

6. Where was Richard Parker's territory?
(a) Under the tarp and the rest of the lifeboat.
(b) The lifeboat and the raft.
(c) Under the tarp and in the blackness beneath.
(d) Under the tarp and the raft.

7. What did Pi do to keep Richard Parker satisfied?
(a) Talked to him while he petted him.
(b) Caught as many fish as possible.
(c) Put him on the raft.
(d) Did not get near him, leaving him alone.

8. What was one method of Pi's escapism?
(a) Temporary asphyxiation by putting a cloth over his face.
(b) Temporarily dreaming of his childhood home and his family.
(c) Temporarily stopping his breathing until he saw pure peace in his mind.
(d) Sleeping during the daylight hours, dreaming of his future life on land.

9. What did Pi use a page from his notebook for?
(a) To write the dream from the previous night.
(b) To write a last will and testament.
(c) To write a note telling of his plight.
(d) To write a goodbye note to his mother.

10. After a few days when Pi started exploring the island, what small, furry, carnivorous animal did he find?
(a) Rats.
(b) Mongoose.
(c) Rabbits.
(d) Meerkats.

11. What did Pi have a hard time butchering?
(a) Turtles.
(b) Fish.
(c) Sharks.
(d) Eels.

12. What were the greatest of contradictions, according to Pi?
(a) Faith and hopelessness.
(b) Darkness of the night and the daylight.
(c) Boredom and terror.
(d) The sea and the sky.

13. What did the officials say to the author about the interview with Pi?
(a) It was incomplete and unusual.
(b) It was difficult and memorable.
(c) It was amazing and heroic.
(d) It was hard but purposeful.

14. What did Pi manage to salvage after the great storm?
(a) One whistle.
(b) His tarp.
(c) His raft.
(d) His fishing pole.

15. How long did the two men dispatched to the town interview Pi for?
(a) 2 days.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) 3 hours.
(d) 3 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Pi plan to do with the tiger once the tiger expressed friendliness and harmlessness?

2. What did Pi finally realize after reading the manual written by a British Royal Navy commander?

3. What did he do to provoke the tiger during training?

4. What was one thing Pi was concerned and obsessed about not having enough of?

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

(see the answer keys)

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