Life of Pi

Which of the following best describes the situation in the beginning of the story?

• Pi has to take care of a tiger named Richard Parker

• After the shipwreck, Pi is stranded on a boat with a tiger called Richard Parker

• Pi is lost on an island

• Pi has to eat fish to survive

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Why does Pi need to fish?

• He is very hungry

• He needs to feed the tiger

• He is very bored

• He likes to kill things

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What does the fact that Pi is trying to create a make-shift fishing rod show about him?

• he is not very smart

• he is afraid

• he is clumsy

• he is resourceful

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How does Pi catch the first flying fish?

• It flies onto the boat and he picks it up

• he catches it with a shoelace

• he jumps in the water

• he summons the power of Poseidon

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How does Pi view the tiger?

• With hate

• With jealousy

• With fear only

• With fear and amazement

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What do PI's internal monologues in the beginning reveal about him?

• He has never been in water before

• He is not very smart

• He tends to overthink things

• He is extremely tired

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In the selection from Life of Pi, why does the narrator have difficulty killing his

first fish?

• The tiger has taken it from him.

• He is a committed vegetarian.

• It escapes as soon as he lets go of it.

• Its skin turned different colors

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In the selection from Life of Pi, what does the narrator say made killing the

dorado easier than killing the flying fish?

• The flying fish is larger, so it is physically harder to fight and kill.

• The dorado is a predator, which he dislikes because he is a vegetarian.

• He has already killed one fish, so he believes that he has become used to

  killing.

• The dorado attacks him, so he views killing it as an act of self-defense.

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In the selection from Life of Pi, how does the narrator feel after killing the flying fish?

• eager to eat the fish

• sad and guilty

• filled with courage

• proud of his success

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Which of the following best summarizes how the narrator feels as a result of catching the Dorado?

• proud of his skills and his victory against the hungry tiger

• unsure of his future stranded in the middle of the ocean with a tiger

• happy that he has shown he has some power over his circumstances

• pleased with the size of the fish he has captured for food

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