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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What smell reminded Pi of childhood?
(a) The smell of the sea.
(b) The smell of the tiger.
(c) The smell of the fish.
(d) The smell of the flares.

4. What did Pi share for food with Richard Parker after butchering it?
(a) Shark meat.
(b) Turtle meat.
(c) Fish.
(d) Eel guts.

5. What else did Pi see a group of, which stayed with him an entire day?
(a) Sea Lions.
(b) Dolphins.
(c) Sharks.
(d) Whales.

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

7. What was a 'dream rag'?
(a) The tarp that protected Pi from the tiger.
(b) A map of the sea in the manual.
(c) A cloth that silenced and pacified the tiger.
(d) Pi's cloth that gave him amazing dreams and hallucinations.

8. What did Pi fail to control as time passed on the liferaft?
(a) His fear.
(b) His faith.
(c) His loneliness.
(d) His direction.

9. What did Pi spend a lot of time in the manual reading about and studying?
(a) How to signal that he was alive.
(b) Navigational directions.
(c) How to make a shelter.
(d) The tide and current.

10. What did Pi discover, days after the tiger started rubbing his eyes and meowing?
(a) The tiger's gentleness.
(b) The tiger's sensitivity.
(c) The tiger's sore leg.
(d) The tiger's blindness.

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

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

13. What was the collection of that Pi's lifeboat came along in the water?
(a) Flying fish.
(b) Dead fish.
(c) Sharks.
(d) Trash.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What emerged for Pi through the darkest times?

2. What was Pi careful to maintain with the tiger in his quest to be known by the tiger as the alpha male?

3. What did the boat do when the raft was next to it?

4. What did a British Royal Navy commander write that Pi took the time to read?

5. What did the interviewers tell Pi they thought about his story?

(see the answer keys)

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