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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 tell to the interviewers?
(a) That he won't say anything more until he goes home.
(b) His story.
(c) His religious philosophies.
(d) Nothing. He is too exhausted to say anything.

2. What did Pi spend a lot of time in the manual reading about and studying?
(a) How to make a shelter.
(b) Navigational directions.
(c) How to signal that he was alive.
(d) The tide and current.

3. What did Pi smell when he was next to the boat?
(a) The smell of rotting food.
(b) The smell of the ocean.
(c) The smell of his wet blanket.
(d) The tiger's urine.

4. What two things does Pi attribute his survival alongside Richard Parker with?
(a) The seperate spaces of the raft and the lifeboat.
(b) Richard Parker's tendency towards seasickness and Pi being the provider of food and water.
(c) His ignorance at the true dangers of Richard Parker and luck.
(d) His faith in his religion and his mother's love for him.

5. What did Pi use a page from his notebook for?
(a) To write a last will and testament.
(b) To write the dream from the previous night.
(c) To write a note telling of his plight.
(d) To write a goodbye note to his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emerged for Pi through the darkest times?

2. When did Pi start spending more time on the lifeboat?

3. What did Pi and Richard Parker come eye to eye with after the great storm?

4. What did Pi find when he boarded the other man's boat to scavenge for food?

5. What did Pi recover from the water in the collection of something that came along?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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, Chapters 96 and 97, Pi told the Japanese officials what about his ordeal?

6. 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?

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

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

9. In Part 2, Chapter 92, Pi and Richard Parker landed on an island. Why didn't they stay?

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

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