Life of Pi Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Life of Pi Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What religion is Pi?
(a) Muslim.
(b) Hindu.
(c) Protestant.
(d) Catholic.

2. How large was the boat?
(a) 4 feet deep, 18 feet wide, 10 feet long.
(b) 26 feet deep, 8 feet wide, 3.5 feet long.
(c) 10 feet deep, 4 feet wide, 18 feet long.
(d) 3.5 feet deep, 8 feet wide, 26 feet long.

3. What did Pi say at the meeting of his parents and his religious teachers?
(a) He just wanted to love God.
(b) He wanted to study more about the religions.
(c) The religions were similar.
(d) He would think about they said.

4. What separated Pi from the Tiger on the boat?
(a) A tarp.
(b) A wall.
(c) A table.
(d) A floor.

5. What is the purpose of the italicized chapters?
(a) To add some mysteriousness to the story.
(b) To confuse the reader.
(c) To tell the reader how the author discovered the story.
(d) To give the reader some background about the man.

6. When Pi saw a sea turtle near the boat, what did he do?
(a) Watched the turtle until it swam off.
(b) Commanded the turtle to go for help.
(c) Talked to the turtle.
(d) Got into the water and swam with the turtle.

7. Who were the two men Pi called the "prophets of his youth"?
(a) Satish Kumar, the Sufi, and Mamji.
(b) Mamji and Pi's father.
(c) Satish Kumar, the atheist, and Satish Kumar, the Sufi.
(d) Satish Kumar, the atheist, and Mamji.

8. In Part 1, Chapter 21, what is the author's purpose in writing about what he thinks after interviewing Pi?
(a) To help the reader understand Pi better.
(b) To make the reader aware of the author's religious beliefs.
(c) To make the reader aware that the author likes Pi.
(d) To help the reader know what the author thinks.

9. What did Richard Parker kill while Pi was building the raft?
(a) A hyena.
(b) A fish.
(c) A bird.
(d) A rat.

10. How did Richard Parker end up in the lifeboat with Pi?
(a) He was there before Pi got in.
(b) Pi helped him swim to the boat by throwing him a life buoy.
(c) Pi doesn't know how he got there.
(d) He jumped into the boat from the ship.

11. Who is Mamji?
(a) A person who studied in England for two years.
(b) A person who used to be a competitive swimmer.
(c) A person who worked for Pi's father at the zoo.
(d) A respectful, affectionate term for an older person.

12. What is the omega animal?
(a) The hardest animal to train.
(b) The animal that is given the easiest tricks to learn.
(c) The one with the lowest social standing in their group.
(d) The one with the highest social standing in their group.

13. When Pi's father took his sons on a tour of the zoo, which of the following statements is not true?
(a) His father showed them how quickly animals could kill them.
(b) His father told them not to try and pet a tiger.
(c) His father told them none of the animals could be touched.
(d) They watched a tiger eat a goat.

14. According to Pi, when do animals try to escape from the zoo?
(a) When they are hungry.
(b) When they don't like their habitat.
(c) When they want to return to their prior home.
(d) When they are unhappy.

15. On the first day, what animals did Pi think were on the lifeboat?
(a) Two hyenas, a zebra, and a dog.
(b) A hyena, a zebra, and an orangutan.
(c) A zebra, an orangutan, a dog, and a hyena.
(d) A hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, and a monkey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when the two Mr. Kumars in Pi's life meet by chance at the zoo?

2. Who is Antieji?

3. According to Pi, why will a lion in a zoo attack?

4. Which is the following is not true about Pi's visit to a Christian church and his meeting with Father Martin?

5. What does Pi lament to the author that he is forgetting?

(see the answer keys)

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