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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. What did Pi smell when he was next to the boat?
2. What did Pi find solace in, even though he had to continually reconsider his place in God's universe?
3. What did the tiger associate with trespassing to remember to avoid it?
4. What did the tiger do when he and Pi landed on the shore of the small island?
5. What was a 'dream rag'?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Pi put his crisis in perspective in Part 2, Chapter 60?
2. In Part 3, Chapter 100, the author receives a letter from Japanese officials about their interview with Pi. They remark that they found Pi to have had amazing fortitude to survive his ordeal. Why did they find his ordeal so amazing?
3. In Part 2, Chapter 90, how did another man enter the story?
4. Discuss Pi's training sequence for trespassing with the tiger in Part 2, Chapter 71.
5. In Part 2, Chapter 57, readers have their first encounter with "Prusten." What is it?
6. In Part 2, Chapter 95, who were dispatched to Mexico to meet Pi, and why?
7. In Part 3, Chapters 96 and 97, Pi told the Japanese officials what about his ordeal?
8. Pi started to take on some of the tiger's traits in Part 2, Chapter 77. Why?
9. What is the symbolism of the flares in Part 2, Chapter 69?
10. Discuss the encounter with the other ship in Part 2, Chapter 86.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the definition of anthropomorphism? What role does it play in the book? Why is it important to the story? Please support your answers with examples from the text.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Using examples from the book, which one of the animals in the zoo is most like Pi and why?
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