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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 use a page from his notebook for?
(a) To write a goodbye note to his mother.
(b) To write a note telling of his plight.
(c) To write a last will and testament.
(d) To write the dream from the previous night.

2. What did Pi continue to use to communicate with the tiger?
(a) Shouting.
(b) Hand gestures.
(c) A stick.
(d) A whistle.

3. How long had Pi been at sea for when he calculated it?
(a) 282 days.
(b) 104 days.
(c) 180 days.
(d) 227 days.

4. What did a British Royal Navy commander write that Pi took the time to read?
(a) A manual on British flora and fauna,
(b) A manual on how to hunt and fish after being shipwrecked,
(c) A survival manual with practical advice on how to survive a shipwreck.
(d) A manual about the ocean tides and currents.

5. What did Pi manage to salvage after the great storm?
(a) One whistle.
(b) His fishing pole.
(c) His tarp.
(d) His raft.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sea creatures were around the boat most of the time?

2. What happened after Pi discovered he was blind?

3. After a few days when Pi started exploring the island, what small, furry, carnivorous animal did he find?

4. When did Pi start spending more time on the lifeboat?

5. What happened to the underside of Pi's raft?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part 2, Chapter 94, how did Pi and Richard Parker part ways on the beach in Mexico?

2. Discuss the encounter with the other ship in Part 2, Chapter 86.

3. In Part 3, Chapter 100, the author receives a letter from Japanese officials about their interview with Pi. They remark that they found Pi to have had amazing fortitude to survive his ordeal. Why did they find his ordeal so amazing?

4. Pi started to take on some of the tiger's traits in Part 2, Chapter 77. Why?

5. What did Pi and the tiger encounter in Part 2, Chapter 84 after the great storm?

6. In Part 2, Chapter 57, readers have their first encounter with "Prusten." What is it?

7. Discuss Pi's training sequence for trespassing with the tiger in Part 2, Chapter 71.

8. What did Pi say about fear in Part 2, Chapter 56?

9. How did Pi learn to use the ocean to his benefit against the tiger in Part 2, Chapter 59?

10. In Part 2, Chapter 90, how did another man enter the story?

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