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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the interviewers want to know first?
(a) Who the tiger was and where Pi had been the past months.
(b) What food Pi had eaten to survive for the past few months.
(c) Where Pi had learned his survival techniques from.
(d) How the ship sank and what happened to the ship's cargo.

2. What did the final report say about Pi's knowledge of the reason the ship sank?
(a) Pi had no real knowledge but was sure it had been because of bad luck.
(b) Pi had no conclusive knowledge.
(c) Pi knew why the ship had sank but would never divulge the secret.
(d) Pi knew that the ship had sank because he had been the one to sink it.

3. What did the crouching tiger do when Pi turned to face him after the storm?
(a) Growled at Pi.
(b) Licked his nose and averted his gaze.
(c) Lunged at Pi, aiming to kill him.
(d) Leaned over the boat and clubbed at a fish.

4. How long had Pi been at sea for when he calculated it?
(a) 227 days.
(b) 104 days.
(c) 282 days.
(d) 180 days.

5. About how much did Pi sleep a night?
(a) Five hours.
(b) Seven hours.
(c) Three hours.
(d) An hour.

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

7. What did the interviewers do after Pi finished telling them what he told them?
(a) Remarked to eachother in Japanese that Pi was not very forthcoming about his experiences.
(b) Remarked to each other in Japanese that they found the story interesting and then took a short break.
(c) Remarked to each other in Spanish that Pi was brilliant and his story was sad.
(d) Talked to each other in Spanish, remarking that Pi had become unstable.

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

9. What did he do to provoke the tiger during training?
(a) Pounced on him like a predator.
(b) Stole his tarp and used it to make a new mast on the raft.
(c) Intruded on the neutral area.
(d) Poked him with a stick.

10. Where did Pi, Richard Parker, and the lifeboat, finally land?
(a) Panama.
(b) Florida.
(c) California.
(d) Mexico.

11. What did Pi smell when he was next to the boat?
(a) The smell of rotting food.
(b) The tiger's urine.
(c) The smell of his wet blanket.
(d) The smell of the ocean.

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

13. What did Pi wish for in his quiet days on the liftboat?
(a) A friend.
(b) A book.
(c) More food.
(d) To be rescued.

14. What did Pi find when he boarded the other man's boat to scavenge for food?
(a) Nothing. The man's boat was as empty as his.
(b) Turtle meat, fish, biscuit crumbs, and water.
(c) Fish, shark meat, and crackers.
(d) Olives, water, and canned fish.

15. Why did Pi give generously to the tiger at the cost of his own hunger and thirst?
(a) If he didn't give generously to the tiger, Pi would not be fulfilling his religious needs.
(b) If the tiger became desperate for food, Pi knew his life would end quickly.
(c) Pi believed in sharing with the tiger for mutual survival.
(d) If the tiger got mad at Pi, he would lunge and kill Pi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Pi recover from the water in the collection of something that came along?

2. After Pi was nearly starving, what did a storm of flying fish bring onto the boat?

3. What did the tiger like to lean over the edge of the boat and club to death, then eat?

4. When Pi awoke in the middle of the night and saw the huge moonlit sky before him, what did he think about with regards to himself and the rest of the sea?

5. When did Pi start spending more time on the lifeboat?

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