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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. How long did the two men dispatched to the town interview Pi for?
2. What did Pi recover from the water in the collection of something that came along?
3. What did Pi do to keep Richard Parker satisfied?
4. What did the interviewers feed Pi before he told them his story?
5. What did the interviewing men decide had caused the ship to sink?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part 2, Chapter 95, who were dispatched to Mexico to meet Pi, and why?
2. The author discusses Pi's maintenance of his religious practices in Part 2, Chapter 74. Discuss Pi's religious reaction to his predicament.
3. Discuss Pi's training sequence for trespassing with the tiger in Part 2, Chapter 71.
4. In Part 2, Chapter 90, how did another man enter the story?
5. 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?
6. What did Pi really achieve by studying the navigational directions in the survival manual in Part 2, Chapter 65?
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 3, Chapters 98 and 99, the Japanese officials interviewed Pi about his story. Why do you think that the officials did not believe Pi?
9. 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?
10. In Part 3, Chapters 96 and 97, Pi told the Japanese officials what about his ordeal?
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
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
What makes Pi's ordeal so difficult for the Japanese interviewers to believe? Would it have been easier if the Pi had described the tiger as Richard Parker, a human?
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