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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Part 1, Chapter 21, what is the author's purpose in writing about what he thinks after interviewing Pi?
2. As Pi was in the lifeboat, what animal floated by and got into the boat?
3. Why did Pi throw himself out of the lifeboat?
4. Which of the following is true about Pi's family's departure from India?
5. What does Pi lament to the author that he is forgetting?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the lion in the zoo in Part 1, Chapter 13 an example of the well-defined social order of animals?
2. In Part 2, Chapter 50, Pi says, "How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true." What does this quote reference?
3. The zebra and Orange Juice are killed in Part 2, Chapter 47, and symbolize what?
4. In Part 1, Chapter 38, what pivotal event of the book takes place?
5. Who is Ganesha in Chapter Part 1, 15?
6. How does Part 1, Chapter 21 set the reader up for the remainder of the story?
7. How are the zebra and the orangutan anthropomorphized in Part 2, Chapter 45?
8. How does Pi react to the story of Jesus in Part 1, Chapter 17?
9. What did Pi and Richard Parker kill and eat in Part 2, Chapter 53? What is it's symbolism?
10. In Part 2, Chapter 51, readers see Pi's persistence pay off as he finds food and water. How did Pi find the food and water?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Pi's ordeal involves his faith in God, his faith in himself, and his will to survive. Discuss each of these, using specific examples from the book.
Essay Topic 2
Pi develops a friendship with the tiger over time, through both taming and training. Explain the process Pi used to tame and train the tiger. Why would a training process be beneficial? Why couldn't Pi simply do this in one day? Why do you think a tiger would want to be trained?
Essay Topic 3
Pi learns he must out-smart the tiger, because he is unable to out-muscle him. Describe, using specific examples from the book, some ways that you believe Pi out-smarts the tiger. How does the tiger not know what Pi is doing? Is the tiger dumber then Pi? Does the tiger focus on different things then Pi? Did the tiger allow himself to be outsmarted?
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