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

2. What did Pi and Richard Parker come eye to eye with after the great storm?
(a) A cargo boat.
(b) A shark.
(c) A whale.
(d) Another lifeboat.

3. What did Pi always feel at the center of?
(a) The circle of the sea.
(b) A huge circle made of sky and ocean.
(c) The circle of life.
(d) A circle of despair and hopelessness.

4. What was an act of deference by the tiger to Pi?
(a) Hiding his feces.
(b) Not lashing out at Pi.
(c) Being silent and gentle with Pi.
(d) Growling at Pi.

5. When Pi awoke in the middle of the night and saw the huge moonlit sky before him, what did he think about with regards to himself and the rest of the sea?
(a) How small he is and how vast the sea and the sky are.
(b) How starless the sky was, and how empty his heart felt.
(c) How lonely the moon looked, and how lonely his heart was.
(d) How there was no chance of ever surviving in such a vast sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the tiger associate with trespassing to remember to avoid it?

2. What did Pi do to keep Richard Parker satisfied?

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

4. After Pi was nearly starving, what did a storm of flying fish bring onto the boat?

5. What else did Pi see a group of, which stayed with him an entire day?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In Part 3, Chapters 96 and 97, Pi told the Japanese officials what about his ordeal?

6. How was Pi's sleep effected by his stress in Part 2, Chapter 68?

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

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

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

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

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