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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 make the lifeboat more and more into?
(a) A home.
(b) A tiger's den.
(c) A shelter.
(d) A zoo habitat.
2. What two things does Pi attribute his survival alongside Richard Parker with?
(a) His faith in his religion and his mother's love for him.
(b) His ignorance at the true dangers of Richard Parker and luck.
(c) The seperate spaces of the raft and the lifeboat.
(d) Richard Parker's tendency towards seasickness and Pi being the provider of food and water.
3. What type of storm was Pi struck with the beauty and wonder of?
(a) A thunder storm.
(b) A lightning storm.
(c) A monsoon.
(d) A hurricane.
4. What else did Pi catch besides fish?
(a) Eels.
(b) Sharks.
(c) Turtles.
(d) Birds.
5. What did the manual suggest Pi drink as a nutritious drink?
(a) Sea Water.
(b) Fish guts.
(c) Tiger urine.
(d) Turtle blood.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did the tiger like to lean over the edge of the boat and club to death, then eat?
2. What did Pi bring to the tiger in the morning after they had both had a restless night's sleep?
3. What was one method of Pi's escapism?
4. What did the crouching tiger do when Pi turned to face him after the storm?
5. What did Pi always feel at the center of?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part 2, Chapter 80, Pi started spending more time on the lifeboat. Why?
2. In Part 2, Chapter 79, Pi was entertained by the tiger's behavior with the sharks. Explain.
3. 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?
4. How did Pi's daily routine start showing through in Part 2, Chapter 62, a week since the ship sank?
5. In Part 2, Chapter 90, how did another man enter the story?
6. Discuss the "dream rag," first discussed by Pi in Part 2, Chapter 87.
7. Discuss the encounter with the other ship in Part 2, Chapter 86.
8. What is the symbolism of the flares in Part 2, Chapter 69?
9. The author discusses Pi's maintenance of his religious practices in Part 2, Chapter 74. Discuss Pi's religious reaction to his predicament.
10. What is one small detail of Pi's suffering that the author describes in Part 2, Chapter 64?
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