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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Pi spend a lot of time in the manual reading about and studying?
(a) The tide and current.
(b) How to signal that he was alive.
(c) Navigational directions.
(d) How to make a shelter.

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

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

4. After a few days when Pi started exploring the island, what small, furry, carnivorous animal did he find?
(a) Meerkats.
(b) Rabbits.
(c) Mongoose.
(d) Rats.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What sea creatures were around the boat most of the time?

2. What did the interviewers do after Pi finished telling them what he told them?

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

4. What happened as starvation began to set in?

5. How many steps were in Pi's plan to tame the tiger?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss Pi's training sequence for trespassing with the tiger in Part 2, Chapter 71.

2. In Part 2, Chapter 89, Pi reached his lowest point in the crisis, and did what? What was Richard Parker's state during this time?

3. In Part 2, Chapter 72, Pi created a shell shield out of a turtle shell. Discuss his persistence in maintaining his shield.

4. What is one small detail of Pi's suffering that the author describes in Part 2, Chapter 64?

5. In Part 3, Chapter 100, the author receives a letter from Japanese officials about their interview with Pi. They remark that they found Pi to have had amazing fortitude to survive his ordeal. Why did they find his ordeal so amazing?

6. In Part 2, Chapter 81, what did Pi attribute his survival with the tiger to?

7. In Part 2, Chapter 57, readers have their first encounter with "Prusten." What is it?

8. What did Pi and the tiger encounter in Part 2, Chapter 84 after the great storm?

9. In Part 2, Chapter 92, Pi and Richard Parker landed on an island. Why didn't they stay?

10. What did Pi say about fear in Part 2, Chapter 56?

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