English 10H Semester 1 Final (Life of Pi portion)

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How old is Pi when he and his family move to Canada?

16 years old

What is flight distance

A "flight distance" is "the minimum distance at which an animal wants to keep a perceived enemy." Put more simply, "flight distance" refers to how close an animal will allow an enemy to get to it before it flees.

Mr. and Mr. Kumar are

A biology teacher and a baker

How does Pi link his statement about freedom in zoos to religion

Both appear to be free but are actually confining

What is strange about the house that is being described in the beginning of chapter 15

Contains items of all three religions

What is one of the more difficult things for Pi while he is on the boat

Eating meat

What is worse than Pi only having four pictures of his whole childhood

He can barely remember his mother

Why does Pi like praying in the mosque

He feels good... deep, immediate connection to the ground beneath him

How does Pi's life change after word gets out that he has been practicing three religions

He is unwelcome in the areas where he would practice

Why does Pi love his prayer rug

He says it glowed with beauty and when he laid it down it reminded him that the earth was sacred everywhere because God created it

What does Pi say made him hindu

He says that the rich sensory details of Hinduism made him love the religion from the start

Why does Pi not see anything wrong with practicing three different religions at the same time?

He thinks that all three religions worship the same god

Why is Pi's father confused by Pi's religious devotion

He values modern conveniences and sees it as old fashioned and backwards

Why does Mr. Kumar call the zoo his "temple"

He visits all the time and uses the natural world like others use religion

Who all was on the boat with Pi

Hyena (cook), zebra (sailor), orangutan (Pi's mother), and the tiger (Pi)

What does Mr. Kumar mean when he says," If you take two steps towards God,...God runs to you!"

If one is open to the idea of God, then God will be in their life

Why is Pi scared when he realizes all three religious leaders have come to see him

No one knows he has been practicing all three religions

Why does Pi think zoologists say the most dangerous animal in a zoo is man

People have made the entire planet their prey. They cause the most problems by tormenting animals

Pi's Secondary School

Petit Seminare

What does Pi's wife do for a living

Pharmacist

What surprises the narrator in chapter 36

Pi has a family that he has been hiding

What does the narrator mean when he says that whomever he visits bobs on the ocean or memory

Pi is drifting along through his memories

What is Pi's full name

Piscine Molitor Patel

When Pi asks his mother if he can be baptized and get a prayer rug, what does she do to distract him

She tells him to read a book

What trait did the narrator and Mamaji share

Swimming

Why is the animal with the lowest social standing also the easiest to train

The animal with the lowest social standing has the most to gain from associating with the alpha member of the group.

In chapter 6, the point of view switches from first to third person... who is speaking

The author

What happened to the leopard in Pi's story and what does this illustrate

The leopard was unseen for ten weeks and when she was found she was shot. This illustrates that escaped zoo animals are not dangerous but simply wanting to fit in

What does Pi say an animal's hates above all else

The unknown

What impresses Pi about the priests at the Christian church

They love all while providing guidance

How to Pi and Ravi feel about moving to Canada

They thought it was way too far

Why did the author go to India

To write a novel

Why did the author include chapter 2 (very short) and what was hinted

Transition paragraph between Pi in present day Canada and remembering India. Hinted that something serious would happen to Pi

What does Pi say accounts for the most hostile and aggressive behavior among animals

Uncertainty of their social hierarchy

What is zoomorphism?

When animals takes other as its own

How does Pi introduce himself to his new class at Petit Seminaire

Writes his name, Pi Patel, and adds the pi symbol for good measure

What were Mr. Patel's two majors in college? What connection does he make between the two?

Zoology and religious studies. Makes the connection with the three-toed sloth


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