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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 a British Royal Navy commander write that Pi took the time to read?
(a) A manual on how to hunt and fish after being shipwrecked,
(b) A survival manual with practical advice on how to survive a shipwreck.
(c) A manual about the ocean tides and currents.
(d) A manual on British flora and fauna,

2. What did Pi plan to do with the tiger once the tiger expressed friendliness and harmlessness?
(a) Leave him.
(b) Train him.
(c) Kill him.
(d) Tame him.

3. What were two big events in Pi's daily routine?
(a) Talking with the tiger and fishing.
(b) Eating and drinking water on his raft.
(c) Collecting rainfall and catching turtles.
(d) Taking his raft out for a while and feeding the tiger.

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

5. What did the manual suggest Pi drink as a nutritious drink?
(a) Sea Water.
(b) Fish guts.
(c) Tiger urine.
(d) Turtle blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What smell reminded Pi of childhood?

2. Why did Pi give generously to the tiger at the cost of his own hunger and thirst?

3. What was the date that Pi's interview with the officials began?

4. On whose estimated birthday did Pi sing "Happy Birthday"?

5. What did the final report say about Pi's knowledge of the reason the ship sank?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Part 2, Chapter 80, Pi started spending more time on the lifeboat. Why?

3. In Part 2, Chapter 90, how did another man enter the story?

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

5. In Part 2, Chapter 79, Pi was entertained by the tiger's behavior with the sharks. Explain.

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

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

8. How did Pi put his crisis in perspective in Part 2, Chapter 60?

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

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

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