- callous
- unsympathetic or uncaring
- hate
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dissemble
- to secure or to make safe
- to mask or to hide
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aversion
- hate
- to mask or to hide
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practicality
- necessity
- wreckage (parts of something broken)
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remonstration
- showiness
- complaining
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transfix
- to hold
- sick
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dyspeptic
- sick
- wreckage (parts of something broken)
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flotsam
- sick
- necessity
- wreckage (parts of something broken)
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melancholy
- showiness
- sad
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ostentation
- showiness
- frozen
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Look at the example sentence below.
Irene a homebody rarely left the house in fact she didn’t even go out to buy wool.
In the example sentence, which of the following words should be followed by a semicolon?
- homebody
- house
- fact
- out
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Who has the worst sea sickness?
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Richard Parker
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Pi
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Orange Juice
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Richard Parker
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What literary device is exemplified by the words “TREEEE” (p.97), “HUMPF” (p.98), and “yip” (p.114)?
- onomatopoeia
- alliteration
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Why does Pi believe that his brother, Ravi, was right about Pi being “the next goat” (p. 99)? (Why does Pi think he soon might die?)
- He gets up and goes outside during the storm.
- He helps Richard Parker get into the lifeboat.
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What dilemma (problem) causes Pi to spend hours hanging off the lifeboat by an oar? (What problem with two choices makes Pi spend hours hanging off the lifeboat?)
- sharks in the water; a tiger in the boat
- family on the ship; safety on the boat
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What does Pi mean by, “…a hyena’s catholicity of taste is so indiscriminate…” (p. 123)? (The word "catholicity" means "to have a wide or big range." "Indiscriminate" means "not caring."
- Hyenas will eat anything.
- Hyenas have good taste in the finer things.
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At the end of Ch. 46, which animal (does it appear) will die first, and how will it die?
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Orange Juice; sickness
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Richard Parker; drowning
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hyena; starvation
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zebra; eaten by hyena
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Orange Juice; sickness
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Which sentence is written correctly?
- Yes, Mary, their going to welcome whoever wants to join, whether Democrat or Republican; it’s that simple.
- Yes, Mary, they’re going to welcome whoever wants to join, whether Democrat or Republican; it’s that simple.
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How does Orange Juice get from the sinking Tsimtsum
to Pi’s life boat, and what does this prove?-
Orange Juice floats from the Tsimtsum to the lifeboat on a bunch of bananas, proving that bananas do indeed float.
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Orange Juice swims from the Tsimtsum to the lifeboat, proving that orangutans can swim.
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Orange Juice floats from the Tsimtsum to the lifeboat on a bunch of bananas, proving that bananas do indeed float.
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Pi narrates, “When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival” (Ch. 45, p.120).
(Pi is saying that when people think they are going to die, they do not think about others. They think only about saving their own lives.)
What does Pi think he should have done differently? Is he correct? Would you have acted the same way as Pi did?
- Pi thinks he should not have helped Richard Parker get on the lifeboat. Pi is sad because he thinks he should have protected the other animals by letting Richard Parker die. I think Pi should not be sad about not helping Richard Parker because, in helping the strongest animal, he could have saved his own life. I understand Pi's sadness because people should care about other living things. It makes sense that Pi feels bad that he is so helpless in this particular situation. For the first time, Pi understands the laws of the animal kingdom, which are very different than the laws of human society. As a human being, I would react the same way as Pi did to the unfamiliar situation, and that I would feel the same amount of sadness. Surely, Pi’s reaction to this situation and his feelings about it are are normal.
- Pi thinks he should have protected the zebra by killing the hyena. I think Pi should not be sad about not helping the zebra because, in trying to kill the hyena, he could have lost his own life. I understand Pi's sadness because people should care about other living things. It makes sense that Pi feels bad that he is so helpless in this particular situation. For the first time, Pi understands the laws of the animal kingdom, which are very different than the laws of human society. As a human being, I would react the same way as Pi did to the unfamiliar situation, and that I would feel the same amount of sadness. Surely, Pi’s reaction to this situation and his feelings about it are are normal.