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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 happened to the underside of Pi's raft?
2. What did Pi and Richard Parker come eye to eye with after the great storm?
3. What did Pi first use to communicate with the tiger after his hope returned?
4. After Pi was nearly starving, what did a storm of flying fish bring onto the boat?
5. How long did the two men dispatched to the town interview Pi for?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part 2, Chapter 81, what did Pi attribute his survival with the tiger to?
2. How did Pi learn to use the ocean to his benefit against the tiger in Part 2, Chapter 59?
3. In Part 2, Chapter 90, how did another man enter the story?
4. In Part 2, Chapter 72, Pi created a shell shield out of a turtle shell. Discuss his persistence in maintaining his shield.
5. How was Pi's sleep effected by his stress in Part 2, Chapter 68?
6. 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?
7. Discuss the "dream rag," first discussed by Pi in Part 2, Chapter 87.
8. What is the symbolism of the flares in Part 2, Chapter 69?
9. Discuss Pi's training sequence for trespassing with the tiger in Part 2, Chapter 71.
10. In Part 2, Chapter 95, who were dispatched to Mexico to meet Pi, and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Which animals in the book are most like people in Pi's life? Use specific examples to explain why you chose various animals and what similar characteristics to their human counterparts they exhibit.
Essay Topic 3
Describe how the "circle of life and death" is exhibited before the shipwreck in the zoo, and after the shipwreck in the lifeboat.
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