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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 did Pi discover, days after the tiger started rubbing his eyes and meowing?
2. When Pi awoke in the middle of the night and saw the huge moonlit sky before him, what did he think about with regards to himself and the rest of the sea?
3. What did Pi recover from the water in the collection of something that came along?
4. What did Pi do to exert his dominance over the tiger?
5. What was one thing Pi was concerned and obsessed about not having enough of?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part 2, Chapter 94, how did Pi and Richard Parker part ways on the beach in Mexico?
2. In Part 2, Chapter 90, how did another man enter the story?
3. Pi started to take on some of the tiger's traits in Part 2, Chapter 77. Why?
4. In Part 2, Chapter 72, Pi created a shell shield out of a turtle shell. Discuss his persistence in maintaining his shield.
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. What did Pi say about fear in Part 2, Chapter 56?
7. What did Pi and the tiger encounter in Part 2, Chapter 84 after the great storm?
8. How did Pi put his crisis in perspective in Part 2, Chapter 60?
9. In Part 2, Chapter 95, who were dispatched to Mexico to meet Pi, and why?
10. Why did Pi find himself distracted & entertained by the underside of the raft in Part 2, Chapter 67?
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
In the early chapters, there are different descriptions of animal behavior. Choose one, and compare and contrast it to a later animal behavior or event in the book that has the same characteristics.
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