Mr. Fornnarino's English 2, Practice Quiz 3
for English Language Learners
Directions for 1-6:Please
select the correct
definition for the given vocabulary word.
depravity
corruption
(bad or evil way of behaving)
non-religious (not believing in a god)
incredulous
skeptical
(not being able or not wanting to believe something)
shame (a bad
feeling because of doing something bad)
indignation
anger (anger
caused because of something that is wrong or unfair)
untroubled
(without troubles; happy)
nemesis
an enemy
an angry
person
adorn
to
be angry
to decorate
(to make something pretty by adding to it)
profusely
excessively
(very much; a lot)
very little
Look at the sentence with
bolded words > She said, “Shanshan, don’t rush into marriage with
him, an unworthy match.”
A
comma is used to separate words in quotation marks (" ") from the rest of
the sentence.
A
comma always is used after the word "said."
What is Pi’s first religion?
Christianity
Hinduism
Buddhism
Islam
Who is not one of the religious men who meets Pi and his parents on the seaside esplanade
(an open space where people may walk)? ?
a priest
a pandit
a rabbi
an imam
What does Pi believe that an atheist has that an agnostic will never
have? (What does someone who does not believe in a god have?)
a hate of the world
an ability to become a believer
Why does Pi’s father decide to move his family, and to where do they plan to move?
the failure of the zoo; the U.S.
political problems; Canada
Pi and his family leave
their home in _________ in _________ by _________ to go to their new home.
Pakistan; August 1983; a charter bus
India; June 1977; a cargo ship
What does the narrator say
shows that Pi’s story has a happy ending?
Pi’s loving daughter
Pi’s new zoo
Pi uses the words “All religions are true,” and “I just want to love God” (p. 87).
Why does Pi use his words? To whom is he
speaking? What action is Pi explaining?
Pi uses these words (one a quote from Gandhi) with Francis Adirubasamy
to explain missing swimming lessons.
Pi uses these words (one a quote from Gandhi) with his parents and his three religious
teachers to explain why he wants to believe in the teachings of Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam.
“Zoomorphism”
happens when an animal follows a different animal or a human instead of
following one of its own kind. How is zoomorphism like Pi's belief in many
religions? How does Pi’s father agree to accept the new and strange by the end of Part I?
Pi
and animals will follow others who are like them. Pi will follow gods who
are like his Hindu gods to be sure that he is protected. Pi's father does
not want to accept change, but at the end of Part 1 he has to because the
zoo fails (p. 89), and he has to find another way to support the family..
When Pi
follows religions unlike his first religion of Hinduism, he is like an
animal who follows a different animal or a human instead of its own kind.
Pi’s father accepts Pi’s beliefs because he is a man who at the end of Part
I is open to the idea of moving his family to a new, strange country halfway
around the world .
