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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) A can of beans and a biscuit.
(c) Water in a bucket and two flying fish.
(d) Two flying fish and a can of beans.

4. What did Pi finally realize after reading the manual written by a British Royal Navy commander?
(a) The ocean was going to become more fierce in future storms.
(b) The British had a keen sense on shipwrecks.
(c) He was responsible for his own survival now.
(d) The tiger would not kill him.

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

6. What did Pi always feel at the center of?
(a) A circle of despair and hopelessness.
(b) The circle of life.
(c) The circle of the sea.
(d) A huge circle made of sky and ocean.

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

8. What was the tiger trying to do with his feces?
(a) Hide them from Pi.
(b) Push them onto the raft.
(c) Eat them.
(d) Push them into the water.

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

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

11. How did Richard Parker react when Pi shouted a greeting to him?
(a) Responded with the same sounds as before.
(b) Growled and roared.
(c) Turned away from Pi, silent.
(d) Came closer to Pi to see what Pi wanted.

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

13. What emerged for Pi through the darkest times?
(a) His hope.
(b) His despair.
(c) His faith.
(d) His love for his mother.

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

15. What was the island made out of, which Pi ate in massive quantity?
(a) Algae.
(b) Soil.
(c) Grass.
(d) Sand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were two big events in Pi's daily routine?

2. What is life's only opponent, in the eyes of Pi?

3. What was the collection of that Pi's lifeboat came along in the water?

4. What did Pi make the lifeboat more and more into?

5. Where were the two men from who were dispatched to the town where Pi recovered in an effort to interview him?

(see the answer keys)

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