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Answers:
1. You want to start with a softball? OK, here's a softball. Richard Parker is this type of animal:
Lion
Tiger
Giraffe
Bear
 
2. Pi Patel discloses to his writer confidant that he was named after a/n:
River
Train
Swimming pool
Island
 
3. The writer who interviews Pi about his adventures writes:
Novels
Magazine articles
Screenplays
Newspaper articles
 
4. The zoo opened by Pi's father is located in:
An amusement park
A train station
A tourist resort
A botanical garden
 
5. As a boy, Pi is exposed to - and to varying degrees, adopts - each of the following religions, except:
Hinduism
Islam
Judaism
Catholicism
 
6. Our first substantial glimpse of Richard Parker comes as he almost kills young Pi when:
Richard Parker escapes while being transferred to the zoo
Pi taunts and teases the tiger
Pi tries to feed him
The lock on Richard Parker's cage breaks
 
7. As punishment for his near-death experience with Richard Parker, Pi's father:
Forces Pi to watch the tiger kill an animal
Whips Pi
Orders Richard Parker shot, though the order is not carried out
Bans Pi from the zoo forever
 
8. Pi meets his girlfriend Anandi when he plays this instrument for her dance class:
A drum
A horn
A flute
A piano
 
9. When Pi's father decides to move the family, this country is his destination:
Canada
France
Britain
USA
 
10. We briefly meet a vile cook on the ship, who taunts Pi's mother over her:
Appearance
Name
Vegetarianism
Accent
 
11. A sympathetic figure on the ship is man who eats rice and gravy, who identifies himself as a:
Buddhist
Taoist
Atheist
Anarchist
 
12. Pi and Richard Parker end up on the lifeboat, along with three other animals (albeit briefly). Which is not one of those animals?
Orangutan
Zebra
Hyena
Gazelle
 
13. Orange Juice the orangutan floats to Pi's lifeboat on:
A life ring
A mattress
A bunch of bananas
A bunch of charred wood
 
14. Which of the animals is the first to die?
The zebra
The hyena
The orangutan
The zebra and orangutan are killed simultaneously
 
15. Before the zebra was killed, it had suffered this injury, which is recalled later in Pi's alternate version of the story:
It lost an eye
It had broken a leg
It sustained a gash to the belly
It was impaled on a wooden shard
 
16. How many of the animals does Richard Parker kill?
0
1
2
3
 
17. Pi's first, but completely unsuccessful, attempt to gain dominance over Richard Parker involves:
Starving the tiger
Making the tiger seasick
Giving the tiger seawater to drink
Hitting the tiger repeatedly with an oar
 
18. For a while, Pi has the boat to himself, and is faced with a choice whether or not to save Richard Parker. What made the tiger get out of the boat?
Pi chased him out by making loud music
He was frightened by lightning
Richard Parker leaped at Pi and fell out
He was trying to catch fish
 
19. Pi ultimately saves Richard Parker by constructing a ladder for the tiger to use to climb back into the boat. The ladder chiefly consists of:
Oars
Life vests
Floorboards
The tarp
 
20. The large green fish which Pi shares with Richard Parker is caught:
By Richard Parker
By Pi with his bare hands
By Pi with a net
By neither Pi nor the tiger, as the fish just leaps into the boat
 
21. In a spectacular scene, Pi stirs up phosphorescent plankton before a whale leaps out of the ocean. What is the consequence of this?
Richard Parker nearly drowns
Pi loses his last remaining rations
The lifeboat begins to sink
Pi's make-shift raft is destroyed
 
22. During the flying fish attack,
Pi and Richard Parker both hide under the tarp
Pi successfully fights off Richard Parker for a fish
Pi is temporarily blinded
A shark begins to circle the lifeboat
 
23. Pi sees a boat off on the distance as he watches:
Dolphins
Whales
A storm
A sunset
 
24. When a particularly vicious storm hits, Pi and Richard Parker find some degree of shelter:
Under the tarp on the lifeboat
Under the overturned lifeboat
On the raft
Under a tent Pi constructs on the raft
 
25. The fantastic island on which Pi and Richard Parker find temporary refuge is populated with lots and lots of:
Gophers
Monkeys
Meerkats
Chinchillas
 
26. Things are really, really wrong on the island. Pi comes to this realization when he finds this human remain:
A skull
A finger bone
A toe
A tooth
 
27. Pi's journey comes to an end when he reaches the shore of:
Mexico
Cuba
Hawaii
Panama
 
28. Pi weeks terribly as he is being rescued, primarily because:
He wishes to be back at sea
The finality of his family being gone forever hits him
Richard Parker didn't say goodbye
He fears his life will be anticlimactic
 
29. The investigators who speak with Pi about the accident are of this nationality:
Chinese
Japanese
Indian
Australian
 
30. The writer surmises from the alternate tale of Pi's survival that his mother was which of the animals?
The tiger
The orangutan
The zebra
The hyena
 
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