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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. How did Richard Parker react when Pi shouted a greeting to him?
(a) Growled and roared.
(b) Turned away from Pi, silent.
(c) Responded with the same sounds as before.
(d) Came closer to Pi to see what Pi wanted.

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

3. What did the great storm one afternoon take with it?
(a) The tarp.
(b) The tiger.
(c) The collected rainwater.
(d) Pi's little raft.

4. What did he do to provoke the tiger during training?
(a) Intruded on the neutral area.
(b) Stole his tarp and used it to make a new mast on the raft.
(c) Pounced on him like a predator.
(d) Poked him with a stick.

5. What did Pi find solace in, even though he had to continually reconsider his place in God's universe?
(a) His religious expressions.
(b) His own thoughts.
(c) Prayer.
(d) His religious memories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Pi manage to salvage after the great storm?

2. What did Pi discover, days after the tiger started rubbing his eyes and meowing?

3. About how much did Pi sleep a night?

4. What did Pi always feel at the center of?

5. What kind of vessel came close to Pi and the tiger, bringing with it a hope of rescue, and later leaving Pi with a longing feeling and a promise to deliver the tiger to land?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. In Part 2, Chapter 72, Pi created a shell shield out of a turtle shell. Discuss his persistence in maintaining his shield.

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

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

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

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

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