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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 had Pi been at sea for when he calculated it?
2. How many steps were in Pi's plan to tame the tiger?
3. What did Pi bring to the tiger in the morning after they had both had a restless night's sleep?
4. What did Pi finally realize after reading the manual written by a British Royal Navy commander?
5. What is life's only opponent, in the eyes of Pi?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part 2, Chapter 76, the author discusses Pi and the tiger's behavior regarding the tiger's feces. What does their behavior signify?
2. In Part 2, Chapter 95, who were dispatched to Mexico to meet Pi, and why?
3. 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?
4. How did Pi learn to use the ocean to his benefit against the tiger in Part 2, Chapter 59?
5. Why did Pi find himself distracted & entertained by the underside of the raft in Part 2, Chapter 67?
6. 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?
7. Discuss Pi's training sequence for trespassing with the tiger in Part 2, Chapter 71.
8. In Part 2, Chapter 90, how did another man enter the story?
9. How was Pi's sleep effected by his stress in Part 2, Chapter 68?
10. In Part 2, Chapter 57, readers have their first encounter with "Prusten." What is it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe how the "circle of life and death" is exhibited before the shipwreck in the zoo, and after the shipwreck in the lifeboat.
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
Using examples from the book, which one of the animals in the zoo is most like Pi and why?
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