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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What else did Pi catch besides fish?
(a) Birds.
(b) Turtles.
(c) Sharks.
(d) Eels.

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

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

6. What type of storm was Pi struck with the beauty and wonder of?
(a) A hurricane.
(b) A thunder storm.
(c) A lightning storm.
(d) A monsoon.

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

8. What did Pi recover from the water in the collection of something that came along?
(a) Drifting wood.
(b) Dead fish.
(c) Rope.
(d) An empty, floating wine bottle.

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

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

11. How many steps were in Pi's plan to tame the tiger?
(a) Seven.
(b) Five.
(c) Six.
(d) Nine.

12. What was Pi careful to maintain with the tiger in his quest to be known by the tiger as the alpha male?
(a) Plentiful water.
(b) Plentiful food.
(c) Eye contact.
(d) Sufficient sleeping space.

13. What did Pi first see in the distance, that he dismissed as a hallucination?
(a) Mountains.
(b) Trees.
(c) A beach.
(d) A hammock.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After spending a nights in the trees, what did the fruit of one tree reveal to Pi?

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

3. What did the officials say to the author about the interview with Pi?

4. What did Pi first use to communicate with the tiger after his hope returned?

5. What did Pi tell the interviewers after they gave their impressions of Pi's story?

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