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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 1, Chapter 33, when the author and Pi look through photos, what period in Pi's life has only a few photos?
(a) His time in Brazil.
(b) His life in India.
(c) His wedding.
(d) His time at the University of Toronto.

2. Why did Pi throw himself out of the lifeboat?
(a) He was hot and he thought he could cool off in the water.
(b) He thought he saw another lifeboat that might be safer.
(c) He realized he was in a boat with a Bengal tiger.
(d) Someone called to him to swim to another boat.

3. When Pi got back into the lifeboat in Part 2, who did he see look out from under the tarp?
(a) The tiger.
(b) The monkey.
(c) The hyena.
(d) The zebra.

4. Which of the following statements is true about Pi's parents' practice of their religion?
(a) Pi's parents practiced their Hindu religion faithfully all the time.
(b) Pi's father was raised as a Hindu, but had been schooled as a Baptist.
(c) Pi's mother had a Hindu upbringing, but had been schooled as a Presbyterian.
(d) Pi's parents were not very religious.

5. What did Pi do when the sun rose the day after he built his raft?
(a) Prepared to battle the tiger.
(b) Fell asleep exhausted, wrapped in his warm blanket.
(c) Created a fishing line to use to catch food.
(d) Moved closer to the tiger for protection.

6. What made Pi re-evaluate his position in the lifeboat?
(a) He thought he saw an island on the horizon.
(b) He saw the tiger in the boat.
(c) He thought he saw a rescue boat.
(d) He imagined that he saw his mother.

7. What were along the interior perimeter of the boat?
(a) Lamps.
(b) Chairs.
(c) Benches.
(d) Shelves.

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

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

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

11. The main character's father loved to talk about what subject?
(a) History.
(b) Animals.
(c) Swimming.
(d) Zoology.

12. Pi was becoming hopeless after the zebra was killed, so he decided to do what?
(a) Do nothing and wait to be rescued.
(b) Throw himself at the hyena for a fight to the death.
(c) Jump overboard and let the sharks kill him.
(d) Pray to God for deliverance.

13. How did Pi end up in the lifeboat?
(a) It was his assigned lifeboat and he went there as the ship sank.
(b) He fell off the ship and swam to the lifeboat.
(c) His father put him there as the ship was sinking.
(d) He was thrown overboard and landed there.

14. As Pi was learning about Islam, he visited a Muslim shopkeeper. Which of the following statements is true?
(a) Pi bought Muslim prayer beads at the shop.
(b) Pi didn't have dinner with the shopkeeper.
(c) The shopkeeper took Pi to a mosque.
(d) The shopkeeper asked Pi to leave when it was time to pray.

15. In Part 1, Chapter 1, the main character tells about his experience in which location?
(a) A Mexican hospital.
(b) A Canadian hospital.
(c) A Mexican restaurant.
(d) An English restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these events did not occur before the ship sank?

2. When Pi's father took his sons on a tour of the zoo, which of the following statements is not true?

3. Why does Pi think that the hyena did not attack him?

4. What did Pi's father tell him was the second greatest danger in the zoo?

5. What was the reaction of Pi's parents to Pi's explorations and practices of various religions?

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