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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) A horrible, perfect storm.
(c) Pi's mother.
(d) Pi.

2. How long did the two men dispatched to the town interview Pi for?
(a) 2 hours.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 2 days.
(d) 3 hours.

3. What did Pi continue to use to communicate with the tiger?
(a) Shouting.
(b) A whistle.
(c) Hand gestures.
(d) A stick.

4. What did Pi and Richard Parker come eye to eye with after the great storm?
(a) A cargo boat.
(b) A shark.
(c) A whale.
(d) Another lifeboat.

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

6. What two things does Pi attribute his survival alongside Richard Parker with?
(a) Richard Parker's tendency towards seasickness and Pi being the provider of food and water.
(b) His faith in his religion and his mother's love for him.
(c) His ignorance at the true dangers of Richard Parker and luck.
(d) The seperate spaces of the raft and the lifeboat.

7. What did Pi do to exert his dominance over the tiger?
(a) Handled the tiger's feces in front of him.
(b) Cleaned the boat of the tiger's urine in front of him.
(c) Cleaned the fish he caught in front of him.
(d) Conducted his daily routine in front of him.

8. Where were the two men from who were dispatched to the town where Pi recovered in an effort to interview him?
(a) Canada.
(b) Japan.
(c) United States.
(d) Mexico.

9. What did Pi do each time he thought he saw lights in the distance?
(a) Set off a flare.
(b) Yelled.
(c) Cried in happiness, then in pain, when the lights didn't come closer.
(d) Directed a broken mirror piece at the lights.

10. What did the tiger like to lean over the edge of the boat and club to death, then eat?
(a) Eels.
(b) Turtles.
(c) Sharks.
(d) Fish.

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

12. 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.

13. What did a British Royal Navy commander write that Pi took the time to read?
(a) A manual on how to hunt and fish after being shipwrecked,
(b) A manual about the ocean tides and currents.
(c) A survival manual with practical advice on how to survive a shipwreck.
(d) A manual on British flora and fauna,

14. What did Pi find solace in, even though he had to continually reconsider his place in God's universe?
(a) His own thoughts.
(b) Prayer.
(c) His religious expressions.
(d) His religious memories.

15. What did Pi do to keep Richard Parker satisfied?
(a) Talked to him while he petted him.
(b) Put him on the raft.
(c) Did not get near him, leaving him alone.
(d) Caught as many fish as possible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Pi finally realize after reading the manual written by a British Royal Navy commander?

2. On whose estimated birthday did Pi sing "Happy Birthday"?

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

4. What did Pi wish for in his quiet days on the liftboat?

5. Where did Pi, Richard Parker, and the lifeboat, finally land?

(see the answer keys)

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