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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 were two big events in Pi's daily routine?
(a) Talking with the tiger and fishing.
(b) Eating and drinking water on his raft.
(c) Taking his raft out for a while and feeding the tiger.
(d) Collecting rainfall and catching turtles.

2. How long did the two men dispatched to the town interview Pi for?
(a) 3 days.
(b) 3 hours.
(c) 2 hours.
(d) 2 days.

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

4. What did Pi do to keep Richard Parker satisfied?
(a) Put him on the raft.
(b) Did not get near him, leaving him alone.
(c) Caught as many fish as possible.
(d) Talked to him while he petted him.

5. What did Pi do to modify the raft?
(a) Increased the depth of the raft by adding another layer of wood,
(b) Made a mast and draped a blanket over it to create shelter.
(c) Made the raft wider with more wood and rope.
(d) Made a mast and found a compass in the locker to navigate with.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the great storm one afternoon take with it?

2. What did the interviewers do after Pi finished telling them what he told them?

3. What did Pi call the tiger's snorting in and out?

4. What did the interviewing men decide had caused the ship to sink?

5. What did Pi first see in the distance, that he dismissed as a hallucination?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. In Part 2, Chapter 95, who were dispatched to Mexico to meet Pi, and why?

6. What is one small detail of Pi's suffering that the author describes in Part 2, Chapter 64?

7. In Part 2, Chapter 81, what did Pi attribute his survival with the tiger to?

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

9. In Part 2, Chapter 76, the author discusses Pi and the tiger's behavior regarding the tiger's feces. What does their behavior signify?

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

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