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

2. What do Pi's parents think about his being so religious?
(a) They hope Pi's religious fervor is a passing phase.
(b) While they may not believe as Pi does, they encourage him.
(c) They think Pi should choose one religion, whichever one he wants.
(d) They just want Pi to be happy.

3. Pi did what with the raft after he built it?
(a) Used it to build a wall to block Richard Parker's view of him sleeping.
(b) Tethered it to the boat.
(c) Put it on the dry land to keep it safe.
(d) Set it free into the water.

4. According to Pi, when do animals try to escape from the zoo?
(a) When they don't like their habitat.
(b) When they are unhappy.
(c) When they want to return to their prior home.
(d) When they are hungry.

5. On the first day, what animals did Pi think were on the lifeboat?
(a) A zebra, an orangutan, a dog, and a hyena.
(b) Two hyenas, a zebra, and a dog.
(c) A hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, and a monkey.
(d) A hyena, a zebra, and an orangutan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mamji?

2. What did Richard Parker kill while Pi was building the raft?

3. Which of the following is true about Pi's family's departure from India?

4. What was under the tarp on the boat?

5. What were along the interior perimeter of the boat?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part 2, Chapter 41, what is noted as having helped Pi stay alive after the shipwreck?

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. How does the female black leopard in Part 1, Chapter 11 try to blend in with her environment after escaping from the Zurich Zoo?

7. How did Pi get his name?

8. In Part 1, Chapter 25, why did Pi not feel as though he fit in anywhere?

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

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

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