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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. As Pi was learning about Islam, he visited a Muslim shopkeeper. Which of the following statements is true?
(a) Pi bought Muslim prayer beads at the shop.
(b) The shopkeeper asked Pi to leave when it was time to pray.
(c) Pi didn't have dinner with the shopkeeper.
(d) The shopkeeper took Pi to a mosque.

2. When did Pi feel that God was very close to him?
(a) When he was praying in the mosque.
(b) When he watched the Muslim shopkeeper.
(c) One day when he was riding his bike home from Mr. Kumar's, the Muslim.
(d) When he was praying in the Christian church.

3. The author uses the animals as symbols of what?
(a) Pi or some part of him.
(b) They are not symbols.
(c) Different aspects of human nature.
(d) Man's aggression.

4. Who were the two men Pi called the "prophets of his youth"?
(a) Satish Kumar, the atheist, and Mamji.
(b) Satish Kumar, the atheist, and Satish Kumar, the Sufi.
(c) Satish Kumar, the Sufi, and Mamji.
(d) Mamji and Pi's father.

5. What was under the tarp on the boat?
(a) The tiger.
(b) A pile of lifejackets.
(c) A locker.
(d) Biscuits.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event showed that fortune was with Pi?

2. Who was Mr. Satish Kumar?

3. What did Pi do when the sun rose the day after he built his raft?

4. The nameless male character introduced in Part 1, Chapter 2 reappears in Part 1, Chapter 6. Readers now learn what about this man?

5. What did Pi not find after looking around on the boat?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Satish Kumar influence Pi's studies?

3. How does Pi react to the story of Jesus in Part 1, Chapter 17?

4. Who is the character introduced in Part 1, Chapter 2?

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

6. How does the tiger get his human name in Part 2, Chapter 48? How is he like Pi?

7. In Part 2, Chapter 43, what did Pi believe is off the lifeboat, as he convinced himself he only had to survive a few hours in the lifeboat before search and rescue teams arrive by ship?

8. 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?

9. In Part 1, Chapter 38, what pivotal event of the book takes place?

10. In Part 1, Chapter 7, Pi discusses his teacher, Mr. Kumar. How are they similar and different?

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