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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened as starvation began to set in?
(a) Pi gave up the will to survive.
(b) Pi's body began to break down and standing was difficult.
(c) Pi spent all day rocking back and forth on the raft.
(d) Pi thought about killing and eating the tiger.

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

3. What did the tiger associate with trespassing to remember to avoid it?
(a) Fish and the whistle.
(b) Nausea and blowing the whistle.
(c) Nausea and exhaustion.
(d) A rocking boat and fish.

4. 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.

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

6. Whose voice did Pi start to hear after he discovered he was blind?
(a) A man's.
(b) His mother's.
(c) The tiger's.
(d) His brother's.

7. What did Pi bring to the tiger in the morning after they had both had a restless night's sleep?
(a) Two dorado and biscuits.
(b) Water in a bucket and two flying fish.
(c) A can of beans and a biscuit.
(d) Two flying fish and a can of beans.

8. What did Pi start to follow after his food supplies run low?
(a) The tiger, to where the tiger has sequestered fish.
(b) The recommended daily intake in the survival guide.
(c) His faith, knowing he can catch more fish.
(d) His normal routine.

9. What did Pi call the tiger's snorting in and out?
(a) Prusten.
(b) Gruften.
(c) Preften.
(d) Gresting.

10. 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.

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

12. When did Pi start spending more time on the lifeboat?
(a) When Pi lost his blanket to the sea during the storm.
(b) When the raft was ruined in the storm.
(c) When the tiger moved to the raft.
(d) When the tiger did not attack him after the storm.

13. After Pi was nearly starving, what did a storm of flying fish bring onto the boat?
(a) A turtle.
(b) A large dorado.
(c) A shark.
(d) The raft.

14. On whose estimated birthday did Pi sing "Happy Birthday"?
(a) His father's.
(b) His mother's.
(c) The tiger's.
(d) His brother's.

15. What did the interviewing men decide had caused the ship to sink?
(a) Pi.
(b) Pi's mother.
(c) Nothing--the answer lies at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
(d) A horrible, perfect storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What of Pi's disintegrated from the sun and salt?

2. What ran out before Pi was done writing in his diary?

3. What did Pi discover, days after the tiger started rubbing his eyes and meowing?

4. What two things does Pi attribute his survival alongside Richard Parker with?

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

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