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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the crouching tiger do when Pi turned to face him after the storm?
(a) Leaned over the boat and clubbed at a fish.
(b) Growled at Pi.
(c) Lunged at Pi, aiming to kill him.
(d) Licked his nose and averted his gaze.

2. What emerged for Pi through the darkest times?
(a) His love for his mother.
(b) His faith.
(c) His despair.
(d) His hope.

3. What did the great storm one afternoon take with it?
(a) The tiger.
(b) Pi's little raft.
(c) The collected rainwater.
(d) The tarp.

4. What did Pi first see in the distance, that he dismissed as a hallucination?
(a) A hammock.
(b) Trees.
(c) A beach.
(d) Mountains.

5. What did a British Royal Navy commander write that Pi took the time to read?
(a) A survival manual with practical advice on how to survive a shipwreck.
(b) A manual on British flora and fauna,
(c) A manual on how to hunt and fish after being shipwrecked,
(d) A manual about the ocean tides and currents.

6. What did Pi bring to the tiger in the morning after they had both had a restless night's sleep?
(a) Two dorado and biscuits.
(b) Water in a bucket and two flying fish.
(c) Two flying fish and a can of beans.
(d) A can of beans and a biscuit.

7. When did Pi start spending more time on the lifeboat?
(a) When the raft was ruined in the storm.
(b) When the tiger moved to the raft.
(c) When the tiger did not attack him after the storm.
(d) When Pi lost his blanket to the sea during the storm.

8. What equipment did Pi fish the most with?
(a) His hands.
(b) Gaffs.
(c) Poles.
(d) Hooks.

9. What did Pi discover, days after the tiger started rubbing his eyes and meowing?
(a) The tiger's gentleness.
(b) The tiger's sore leg.
(c) The tiger's sensitivity.
(d) The tiger's blindness.

10. What was the date that Pi's interview with the officials began?
(a) March 24, 1988.
(b) February 19, 1978.
(c) January 12, 1968.
(d) April 17, 1998.

11. What did Pi finally realize after reading the manual written by a British Royal Navy commander?
(a) He was responsible for his own survival now.
(b) The British had a keen sense on shipwrecks.
(c) The ocean was going to become more fierce in future storms.
(d) The tiger would not kill him.

12. Since Pi had no bait, what did he cut up to fish with in the morning, after his leather shoe was unsuccessful?
(a) The tiger's droppings.
(b) The British naval manual.
(c) Flying fish.
(d) The biscuits.

13. What two things does Pi attribute his survival alongside Richard Parker with?
(a) Richard Parker's tendency towards seasickness and Pi being the provider of food and water.
(b) His faith in his religion and his mother's love for him.
(c) His ignorance at the true dangers of Richard Parker and luck.
(d) The seperate spaces of the raft and the lifeboat.

14. What did Pi do to exert his dominance over the tiger?
(a) Handled the tiger's feces in front of him.
(b) Cleaned the fish he caught in front of him.
(c) Conducted his daily routine in front of him.
(d) Cleaned the boat of the tiger's urine in front of him.

15. What is life's only opponent, in the eyes of Pi?
(a) Fear.
(b) Exhaustion.
(c) Death.
(d) Power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Pi first use to communicate with the tiger after his hope returned?

2. What was one thing Pi was concerned and obsessed about not having enough of?

3. What did the officials say to the author about the interview with Pi?

4. Where were the two men from who were dispatched to the town where Pi recovered in an effort to interview him?

5. What were the greatest of contradictions, according to Pi?

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