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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the boat do when the raft was next to it?
(a) Turned perpendicular to the waves and rolled unpleasantly.
(b) Turned parallel to the waves, increasing the unpleasant rolling motion.
(c) Turned parallel to the current and calmed in its rolling motion.
(d) Turned perpendicular to the current and flowed with it.

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

3. About how much did Pi sleep a night?
(a) An hour.
(b) Seven hours.
(c) Five hours.
(d) Three hours.

4. What did Pi find solace in, even though he had to continually reconsider his place in God's universe?
(a) His religious memories.
(b) Prayer.
(c) His religious expressions.
(d) His own thoughts.

5. What was the island made out of, which Pi ate in massive quantity?
(a) Grass.
(b) Algae.
(c) Soil.
(d) Sand.

6. What did the interviewers do after Pi finished telling them what he told them?
(a) Remarked to eachother in Japanese that Pi was not very forthcoming about his experiences.
(b) Remarked to each other in Japanese that they found the story interesting and then took a short break.
(c) Talked to each other in Spanish, remarking that Pi had become unstable.
(d) Remarked to each other in Spanish that Pi was brilliant and his story was sad.

7. Where did Pi, Richard Parker, and the lifeboat, finally land?
(a) California.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Panama.
(d) Florida.

8. What happened after Pi discovered he was blind?
(a) He went into a state of hallucination.
(b) He laid down on the raft, convinced he would die.
(c) He learned to trust the tiger for his food.
(d) His mind cleared and he only saw peace.

9. What were two big events in Pi's daily routine?
(a) Taking his raft out for a while and feeding the tiger.
(b) Collecting rainfall and catching turtles.
(c) Talking with the tiger and fishing.
(d) Eating and drinking water on his raft.

10. What was one method of Pi's escapism?
(a) Temporarily stopping his breathing until he saw pure peace in his mind.
(b) Temporary asphyxiation by putting a cloth over his face.
(c) Sleeping during the daylight hours, dreaming of his future life on land.
(d) Temporarily dreaming of his childhood home and his family.

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

12. What did Pi first use to communicate with the tiger after his hope returned?
(a) His voice.
(b) A stick from the boat.
(c) A whistle from the locker.
(d) A wooden tube from the boat.

13. What did the tiger associate with trespassing to remember to avoid it?
(a) Nausea and blowing the whistle.
(b) Nausea and exhaustion.
(c) A rocking boat and fish.
(d) Fish and the whistle.

14. What did Pi use a page from his notebook for?
(a) To write a last will and testament.
(b) To write a note telling of his plight.
(c) To write the dream from the previous night.
(d) To write a goodbye note to his mother.

15. What did Pi do to keep Richard Parker satisfied?
(a) Talked to him while he petted him.
(b) Did not get near him, leaving him alone.
(c) Caught as many fish as possible.
(d) Put him on the raft.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Pi start to follow after his food supplies run low?

2. What did Pi do to modify the raft?

3. On whose estimated birthday did Pi sing "Happy Birthday"?

4. What did Pi and Richard Parker come eye to eye with after the great storm?

5. What did Pi call the tiger's snorting in and out?

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