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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What else did Pi catch besides fish?
(a) Eels.
(b) Birds.
(c) Sharks.
(d) Turtles.
2. What was Pi careful to maintain with the tiger in his quest to be known by the tiger as the alpha male?
(a) Sufficient sleeping space.
(b) Eye contact.
(c) Plentiful water.
(d) Plentiful food.
3. What did Pi plan to do with the tiger once the tiger expressed friendliness and harmlessness?
(a) Tame him.
(b) Leave him.
(c) Train him.
(d) Kill him.
4. When did Pi start spending more time on the lifeboat?
(a) When the raft was ruined in the storm.
(b) When Pi lost his blanket to the sea during the storm.
(c) When the tiger moved to the raft.
(d) When the tiger did not attack him after the storm.
5. What was one thing Pi was concerned and obsessed about not having enough of?
(a) Tarps.
(b) Wood.
(c) Water.
(d) Space.
6. What did Pi fail to control as time passed on the liferaft?
(a) His faith.
(b) His direction.
(c) His loneliness.
(d) His fear.
7. What did the boat do when the raft was next to it?
(a) Turned perpendicular to the current and flowed with it.
(b) Turned parallel to the current and calmed in its rolling motion.
(c) Turned parallel to the waves, increasing the unpleasant rolling motion.
(d) Turned perpendicular to the waves and rolled unpleasantly.
8. What did he do to provoke the tiger during training?
(a) Poked him with a stick.
(b) Stole his tarp and used it to make a new mast on the raft.
(c) Intruded on the neutral area.
(d) Pounced on him like a predator.
9. What did Pi and Richard Parker come eye to eye with after the great storm?
(a) Another lifeboat.
(b) A shark.
(c) A cargo boat.
(d) A whale.
10. Where were the two men from who were dispatched to the town where Pi recovered in an effort to interview him?
(a) Mexico.
(b) United States.
(c) Canada.
(d) Japan.
11. What happened after Pi discovered he was blind?
(a) He learned to trust the tiger for his food.
(b) His mind cleared and he only saw peace.
(c) He went into a state of hallucination.
(d) He laid down on the raft, convinced he would die.
12. What was a 'dream rag'?
(a) Pi's cloth that gave him amazing dreams and hallucinations.
(b) A map of the sea in the manual.
(c) A cloth that silenced and pacified the tiger.
(d) The tarp that protected Pi from the tiger.
13. What is life's only opponent, in the eyes of Pi?
(a) Power.
(b) Exhaustion.
(c) Death.
(d) Fear.
14. How did Richard Parker react when Pi shouted a greeting to him?
(a) Came closer to Pi to see what Pi wanted.
(b) Responded with the same sounds as before.
(c) Growled and roared.
(d) Turned away from Pi, silent.
15. What was the date that Pi's interview with the officials began?
(a) February 19, 1978.
(b) March 24, 1988.
(c) January 12, 1968.
(d) April 17, 1998.
Short Answer Questions
1. After a few days when Pi started exploring the island, what small, furry, carnivorous animal did he find?
2. How long had Pi been at sea for when he calculated it?
3. What did Pi have a hard time butchering?
4. What did Pi finally realize after reading the manual written by a British Royal Navy commander?
5. What did the interviewers feed Pi before he told them his story?
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