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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 final report say about Pi's knowledge of the reason the ship sank?
(a) Pi had no real knowledge but was sure it had been because of bad luck.
(b) Pi knew that the ship had sank because he had been the one to sink it.
(c) Pi had no conclusive knowledge.
(d) Pi knew why the ship had sank but would never divulge the secret.

2. After Pi was nearly starving, what did a storm of flying fish bring onto the boat?
(a) The raft.
(b) A large dorado.
(c) A shark.
(d) A turtle.

3. What did Pi do to exert his dominance over the tiger?
(a) Cleaned the fish he caught in front of him.
(b) Handled the tiger's feces in front of him.
(c) Conducted his daily routine in front of him.
(d) Cleaned the boat of the tiger's urine in front of him.

4. What did Pi use, lose, and re-create, to protect himself while training the tiger?
(a) A shield made of the locker door.
(b) A shield made of part of the raft.
(c) A shield made of wood from the benches in the boat.
(d) A turtle shell shield.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Once Pi's suffering became intense, what did he do with the greater part of his days?

3. What did the interviewers want to know first?

4. What happened as starvation began to set in?

5. What did the interviewers tell Pi they thought about his story?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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