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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 crouching tiger do when Pi turned to face him after the storm?
(a) Licked his nose and averted his gaze.
(b) Growled at Pi.
(c) Lunged at Pi, aiming to kill him.
(d) Leaned over the boat and clubbed at a fish.

2. What did Pi manage to salvage after the great storm?
(a) His raft.
(b) His tarp.
(c) One whistle.
(d) His fishing pole.

3. What did Pi start to follow after his food supplies run low?
(a) The tiger, to where the tiger has sequestered fish.
(b) His faith, knowing he can catch more fish.
(c) The recommended daily intake in the survival guide.
(d) His normal routine.

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

5. What ran out before Pi was done writing in his diary?
(a) The ink in his pens.
(b) Room on the page.
(c) Daylight.
(d) His hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Pi have a hard time butchering?

2. What did Pi make the lifeboat more and more into?

3. What did Pi find solace in, even though he had to continually reconsider his place in God's universe?

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

5. What did Pi use a page from his notebook for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the symbolism of the flares in Part 2, Chapter 69?

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. Pi started to take on some of the tiger's traits in Part 2, Chapter 77. Why?

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

10. The author discusses Pi's maintenance of his religious practices in Part 2, Chapter 74. Discuss Pi's religious reaction to his predicament.

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