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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. About how much did Pi sleep a night?
2. How long did the two men dispatched to the town interview Pi for?
3. What did Pi finally realize after reading the manual written by a British Royal Navy commander?
4. What did Pi do to keep Richard Parker satisfied?
5. What happened to the underside of Pi's raft?
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 95, who were dispatched to Mexico to meet Pi, and why?
3. Pi started to take on some of the tiger's traits in Part 2, Chapter 77. Why?
4. 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?
5. Discuss the "dream rag," first discussed by Pi in Part 2, Chapter 87.
6. In Part 2, Chapter 76, the author discusses Pi and the tiger's behavior regarding the tiger's feces. What does their behavior signify?
7. In Part 2, Chapter 72, Pi created a shell shield out of a turtle shell. Discuss his persistence in maintaining his shield.
8. In Part 2, Chapter 81, what did Pi attribute his survival with the tiger to?
9. What did Pi say about fear in Part 2, Chapter 56?
10. What did Pi really achieve by studying the navigational directions in the survival manual in Part 2, Chapter 65?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the role of turtles in the book? Using specific examples from before the shipwreck as well as after, describe their importance to the book.
Essay Topic 2
In the early chapters, there are different descriptions of animal behavior. Choose one, and compare and contrast it to a later animal behavior or event in the book that has the same characteristics.
Essay Topic 3
What is the role of Pi's diary in his ordeal? Is it important? Is it just "filler?" Why?
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