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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 discover, days after the tiger started rubbing his eyes and meowing?
(a) The tiger's blindness.
(b) The tiger's sensitivity.
(c) The tiger's gentleness.
(d) The tiger's sore leg.

2. What did he do to provoke the tiger during training?
(a) Poked him with a stick.
(b) Pounced on him like a predator.
(c) Intruded on the neutral area.
(d) Stole his tarp and used it to make a new mast on the raft.

3. What happened as starvation began to set in?
(a) Pi's body began to break down and standing was difficult.
(b) Pi spent all day rocking back and forth on the raft.
(c) Pi thought about killing and eating the tiger.
(d) Pi gave up the will to survive.

4. What did Pi call the tiger's snorting in and out?
(a) Preften.
(b) Prusten.
(c) Gresting.
(d) Gruften.

5. What was the island made out of, which Pi ate in massive quantity?
(a) Algae.
(b) Sand.
(c) Grass.
(d) Soil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the officials say to the author about the interview with Pi?

2. What did Pi always feel at the center of?

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

4. What did Pi tell the interviewers after they gave their impressions of Pi's story?

5. What did Pi manage to salvage after the great storm?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part 2, Chapter 89, Pi reached his lowest point in the crisis, and did what? What was Richard Parker's state during this time?

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

3. What is the symbolism of the flares in Part 2, Chapter 69?

4. In Part 2, Chapter 72, Pi created a shell shield out of a turtle shell. Discuss his persistence in maintaining his shield.

5. 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?

6. In Part 2, Chapter 80, Pi started spending more time on the lifeboat. Why?

7. How did Pi's daily routine start showing through in Part 2, Chapter 62, a week since the ship sank?

8. In Part 3, Chapters 98 and 99, the Japanese officials interviewed Pi about his story. Why do you think that the officials did not believe Pi?

9. How did Pi put his crisis in perspective in Part 2, Chapter 60?

10. Discuss the "dream rag," first discussed by Pi in Part 2, Chapter 87.

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