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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. About how much did Pi sleep a night?
(a) Three hours.
(b) Seven hours.
(c) Five hours.
(d) An hour.

2. What was a 'dream rag'?
(a) A cloth that silenced and pacified the tiger.
(b) A map of the sea in the manual.
(c) Pi's cloth that gave him amazing dreams and hallucinations.
(d) The tarp that protected Pi from the tiger.

3. What did Pi first use to communicate with the tiger after his hope returned?
(a) A wooden tube from the boat.
(b) A whistle from the locker.
(c) A stick from the boat.
(d) His voice.

4. What did the interviewing men decide had caused the ship to sink?
(a) A horrible, perfect storm.
(b) Pi.
(c) Pi's mother.
(d) Nothing--the answer lies at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

5. What did the interviewers want to know first?
(a) What food Pi had eaten to survive for the past few months.
(b) Where Pi had learned his survival techniques from.
(c) How the ship sank and what happened to the ship's cargo.
(d) Who the tiger was and where Pi had been the past months.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did a British Royal Navy commander write that Pi took the time to read?

3. After spending a nights in the trees, what did the fruit of one tree reveal to Pi?

4. What were two big events in Pi's daily routine?

5. What did the interviewers tell Pi they thought about his story?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Pi find himself distracted & entertained by the underside of the raft in Part 2, Chapter 67?

3. What did Pi really achieve by studying the navigational directions in the survival manual in Part 2, Chapter 65?

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

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

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

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

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

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