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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 is life's only opponent, in the eyes of Pi?
(a) Exhaustion.
(b) Fear.
(c) Power.
(d) Death.

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

3. What did Pi first see in the distance, that he dismissed as a hallucination?
(a) A beach.
(b) Trees.
(c) Mountains.
(d) A hammock.

4. What did the tiger associate with trespassing to remember to avoid it?
(a) Fish and the whistle.
(b) A rocking boat and fish.
(c) Nausea and blowing the whistle.
(d) Nausea and exhaustion.

5. What smell reminded Pi of childhood?
(a) The smell of the flares.
(b) The smell of the tiger.
(c) The smell of the sea.
(d) The smell of the fish.

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. What did the crouching tiger do when Pi turned to face him after the storm?

4. What ran out before Pi was done writing in his diary?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What event in Part 2, Chapter 85 seemed to suggest that Pi was impressed and appreciated natural wonders? What was Pi's reaction to the event?

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

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 95, who were dispatched to Mexico to meet Pi, and why?

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

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

7. What did Pi and the tiger encounter in Part 2, Chapter 84 after the great storm?

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

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

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

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