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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 is life's only opponent, in the eyes of Pi?
2. What did Pi make the lifeboat more and more into?
3. What was one thing Pi was concerned and obsessed about not having enough of?
4. What did Pi recover from the water in the collection of something that came along?
5. What did Pi find solace in, even though he had to continually reconsider his place in God's universe?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part 2, Chapter 95, who were dispatched to Mexico to meet Pi, and why?
2. In Part 2, Chapter 81, what did Pi attribute his survival with the tiger to?
3. In Part 3, Chapters 98 and 99, the Japanese officials interviewed Pi about his story. Why do you think that the officials did not believe Pi?
4. In Part 2, Chapter 72, Pi created a shell shield out of a turtle shell. Discuss his persistence in maintaining his shield.
5. 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?
6. In Part 2, Chapter 90, how did another man enter the story?
7. Discuss the "dream rag," first discussed by Pi in Part 2, Chapter 87.
8. The author discusses Pi's maintenance of his religious practices in Part 2, Chapter 74. Discuss Pi's religious reaction to his predicament.
9. How did Pi put his crisis in perspective in Part 2, Chapter 60?
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
There are multiple storms during the story. Each storm leaves Pi with a new vision and attitude about his ordeal and the future. Pick one such storm and describe the storm, its immediate effects on Pi, and its overall effect on the larger story themes.
Essay Topic 2
When Pi finds the first island, he leaves it out of fear of the island being cannibalistic. Discuss what the symbolism of this island is to Pi and to the overall story.
Essay Topic 3
Is Richard Parker a human or a tiger? Using Chapter 2, the early chapters about animal behavior, and Richard Parker's behavior once shipwrecked, describe whether you believe he is a human or a tiger.
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