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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 else did Pi see a group of, which stayed with him an entire day?
2. What did the interviewers do after Pi finished telling them what he told them?
3. What did he do to provoke the tiger during training?
4. What were two big events in Pi's daily routine?
5. What else did Pi catch besides fish?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part 2, Chapter 72, Pi created a shell shield out of a turtle shell. Discuss his persistence in maintaining his shield.
2. In Part 2, Chapter 76, the author discusses Pi and the tiger's behavior regarding the tiger's feces. What does their behavior signify?
3. Discuss the "dream rag," first discussed by Pi in Part 2, Chapter 87.
4. What is the symbolism of the flares in Part 2, Chapter 69?
5. In Part 2, Chapter 92, Pi and Richard Parker landed on an island. Why didn't they stay?
6. How was Pi's sleep effected by his stress in Part 2, Chapter 68?
7. How did Pi learn to use the ocean to his benefit against the tiger in Part 2, Chapter 59?
8. In Part 3, Chapters 98 and 99, the Japanese officials interviewed Pi about his story. Why do you think that the officials did not believe Pi?
9. In Part 2, Chapter 95, who were dispatched to Mexico to meet Pi, and why?
10. How did Pi's daily routine start showing through in Part 2, Chapter 62, a week since the ship sank?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the definition of anthropomorphism? What role does it play in the book? Why is it important to the story? Please support your answers with examples from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Both the raft and the lifeboat prove critical to Pi's success, but in different ways. Discuss why it was important to Pi's mind to have both the raft and the lifeboat. What would have happened if Pi had never been able to make the raft? What if Pi had lost the lifeboat?
Essay Topic 3
Describe how the "circle of life and death" is exhibited before the shipwreck in the zoo, and after the shipwreck in the lifeboat.
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