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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did the tiger like to lean over the edge of the boat and club to death, then eat?
(a) Fish.
(b) Turtles.
(c) Eels.
(d) Sharks.

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

6. What did the interviewers tell Pi they thought about his story?
(a) That his family would be proud to have him return.
(b) That they didn't believe it.
(c) That they thought it was so improbable it was amazing he had survived.
(d) That they thought it was a story of heroism.

7. What did Pi start to follow after his food supplies run low?
(a) The tiger, to where the tiger has sequestered fish.
(b) His faith, knowing he can catch more fish.
(c) The recommended daily intake in the survival guide.
(d) His normal routine.

8. What did the interviewers feed Pi before he told them his story?
(a) A sandwich.
(b) Fish.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A cookie.

9. What did the tiger do when he and Pi landed on the shore of the small island?
(a) Stayed close to Pi, now trained and secure in his presence.
(b) Saw a moving animal and raced after it, hunting it down and tearing it apart for food.
(c) Leapt from the boat and disappeared over a ridge.
(d) Stayed on the boat, skeptical of the island.

10. What did the final report say about Pi's knowledge of the reason the ship sank?
(a) Pi knew why the ship had sank but would never divulge the secret.
(b) Pi knew that the ship had sank because he had been the one to sink it.
(c) Pi had no real knowledge but was sure it had been because of bad luck.
(d) Pi had no conclusive knowledge.

11. What ran out before Pi was done writing in his diary?
(a) Daylight.
(b) The ink in his pens.
(c) Room on the page.
(d) His hope.

12. What was the collection of that Pi's lifeboat came along in the water?
(a) Sharks.
(b) Dead fish.
(c) Trash.
(d) Flying fish.

13. What did Pi manage to salvage after the great storm?
(a) His tarp.
(b) His raft.
(c) His fishing pole.
(d) One whistle.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What else did Pi see a group of, which stayed with him an entire day?

2. What did Pi continue to use to communicate with the tiger?

3. What emerged for Pi through the darkest times?

4. What is life's only opponent, in the eyes of Pi?

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

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