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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) The shopkeeper took Pi to a mosque.
(b) The shopkeeper asked Pi to leave when it was time to pray.
(c) Pi bought Muslim prayer beads at the shop.
(d) Pi didn't have dinner with the shopkeeper.

2. When Pi's father took his sons on a tour of the zoo, which of the following statements is not true?
(a) They watched a tiger eat a goat.
(b) His father showed them how quickly animals could kill them.
(c) His father told them none of the animals could be touched.
(d) His father told them not to try and pet a tiger.

3. What convinced Pi he wasn't going to die?
(a) A friend.
(b) Richard Parker.
(c) A rat.
(d) A voice.

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

5. What was the reaction of Pi's parents to Pi's explorations and practices of various religions?
(a) They were uncomfortable with his religious practices.
(b) They wanted him to stop exploring religions and settle on one.
(c) They wanted him to choose one faith and practice it.
(d) They thought he was doing the right thing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Mr. Satish Kumar?

2. What religion is Pi?

3. What was the main character named after?

4. Why did Pi throw himself out of the lifeboat?

5. As Pi was losing hope, his courage rose and what did he no longer fear?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How are the zebra and the orangutan anthropomorphized in Part 2, Chapter 45?

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

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

10. What did Pi and Richard Parker kill and eat in Part 2, Chapter 53? What is it's symbolism?

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