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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What made Pi re-evaluate his position in the lifeboat?
2. Pi was becoming hopeless after the zebra was killed, so he decided to do what?
3. When Pi got back into the lifeboat in Part 2, who did he see look out from under the tarp?
4. How did Pi first learn about Islam?
5. What happened when the two Mr. Kumars in Pi's life meet by chance at the zoo?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the tiger get his human name in Part 2, Chapter 48? How is he like Pi?
2. How do Pi's parents view him in Part 1, Chapter 27?
3. In Part 2, Chapter 50, Pi says, "How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true." What does this quote reference?
4. In Part 2, Chapter 43, what did Pi believe is off the lifeboat, as he convinced himself he only had to survive a few hours in the lifeboat before search and rescue teams arrive by ship?
5. How did Pi get his name?
6. Who is the character introduced in Part 1, Chapter 2?
7. How is the lion in the zoo in Part 1, Chapter 13 an example of the well-defined social order of animals?
8. The zebra and Orange Juice are killed in Part 2, Chapter 47, and symbolize what?
9. What part of Pi's life seems painful, as the author is with Pi looking through photo albums in Part 1, Chapter 33?
10. Where and why did Pi's father move the family in Part 1, Chapter 29?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What makes Pi's ordeal so difficult for the Japanese interviewers to believe? Would it have been easier if the Pi had described the tiger as Richard Parker, a human?
Essay Topic 2
How do Pi's religious views shape his view of his ordeal?
Essay Topic 3
Pi learns he must out-smart the tiger, because he is unable to out-muscle him. Describe, using specific examples from the book, some ways that you believe Pi out-smarts the tiger. How does the tiger not know what Pi is doing? Is the tiger dumber then Pi? Does the tiger focus on different things then Pi? Did the tiger allow himself to be outsmarted?
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