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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 do to exert his dominance over the tiger?

2. Whose voice did Pi start to hear after he discovered he was blind?

3. Where was Richard Parker's territory?

4. What did Pi start to follow after his food supplies run low?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss Pi's training sequence for trespassing with the tiger in Part 2, Chapter 71.

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

3. The author discusses Pi's maintenance of his religious practices in Part 2, Chapter 74. Discuss Pi's religious reaction to his predicament.

4. What did Pi and the tiger encounter in Part 2, Chapter 84 after the great storm?

5. In Part 2, Chapter 89, Pi reached his lowest point in the crisis, and did what? What was Richard Parker's state during this time?

6. Discuss the "dream rag," first discussed by Pi in Part 2, Chapter 87.

7. How was Pi's sleep effected by his stress in Part 2, Chapter 68?

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

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

10. In Part 2, Chapter 94, how did Pi and Richard Parker part ways on the beach in Mexico?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do Pi's religious views shape his view of his ordeal?

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

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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