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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 got mad at Pi, he would lunge and kill Pi.
(c) Pi believed in sharing with the tiger for mutual survival.
(d) If the tiger became desperate for food, Pi knew his life would end quickly.

2. What sea creatures were around the boat most of the time?
(a) Sharks.
(b) Eels.
(c) Turtles.
(d) Fish.

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

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

5. What is life's only opponent, in the eyes of Pi?
(a) Power.
(b) Fear.
(c) Exhaustion.
(d) Death.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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?
(a) How small he is and how vast the sea and the sky are.
(b) How starless the sky was, and how empty his heart felt.
(c) How lonely the moon looked, and how lonely his heart was.
(d) How there was no chance of ever surviving in such a vast sea.

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

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

15. What was the date that Pi's interview with the officials began?
(a) January 12, 1968.
(b) February 19, 1978.
(c) April 17, 1998.
(d) March 24, 1988.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Pi manage to salvage after the great storm?

3. What was a 'dream rag'?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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