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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following statements is true about Pi's parents' practice of their religion?
(a) Pi's parents were not very religious.
(b) Pi's parents practiced their Hindu religion faithfully all the time.
(c) Pi's father was raised as a Hindu, but had been schooled as a Baptist.
(d) Pi's mother had a Hindu upbringing, but had been schooled as a Presbyterian.

2. What did Pi say at the meeting of his parents and his religious teachers?
(a) The religions were similar.
(b) He would think about they said.
(c) He just wanted to love God.
(d) He wanted to study more about the religions.

3. What did Richard Parker kill while Pi was building the raft?
(a) A bird.
(b) A rat.
(c) A fish.
(d) A hyena.

4. As night fell on his first day in the lifeboat, why did Pi become scared?
(a) He knew the hyena was capable of hurting him.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) He didn't know what would happen.
(d) It would be dark and rescue boats wouldn't see him.

5. When the hyena began to act strangely, what did Pi do?
(a) Tried to quiet the hyena by distracting it.
(b) Sat still and thought about the predatory powers of the hyena.
(c) Jumped back into the water.
(d) Hid under the tarp.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Mr. Satish Kumar?

2. The main character grew up in what country?

3. What animal do zookeepers think of as the most dangerous animal in the zoo?

4. Symbolically, what does it mean when the storm clears?

5. After the family sold the zoo, why did it take a year before they could leave India for Canada?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part 2, Chapter 50, Pi says, "How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true." What does this quote reference?

2. Where and why did Pi's father move the family in Part 1, Chapter 29?

3. In Part 1, Chapter 31, what do Mr. Kumar and Mr. Kumar represent in terms of Pi?

4. The book begins in Part 1, Chapter 1 with many unanswered questions. What are some of these questions?

5. What does the closing sentence of Part 1, Chapter 35 foreshadow?

6. The zebra and Orange Juice are killed in Part 2, Chapter 47, and symbolize what?

7. How is the lion in the zoo in Part 1, Chapter 13 an example of the well-defined social order of animals?

8. How did Pi get his name?

9. In Part 2, Chapter 54, Pi worried about what to do with the tiger. Discuss his conclusions.

10. In Part 1, Chapter 39, where did Pi end up after being thrown overboard?

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