For questions 1-12, please select the correct definition for the given vocabulary word.
apoplectic
corruption
non-religious
an enemy
angry
depravity
corruption
non-religious
an enemy
angry
impious
corruption
non-religious
an enemy
angry
incredulous
excessively
unavoidably
skeptical
shame
indignation
anger
suspiciously
to decorate
untroubled
unperturbed
anger
suspiciously
to decorate
untroubled
nemesis
corruption
non-religious
an enemy
angry
ineluctably
excessively
unavoidably
skeptical
shame
adorn
anger
suspiciously
to decorate
untroubled
askance
anger
suspiciously
to decorate
untroubled
profusely
excessively
unavoidably
skeptical
shame
chagrin
excessively
unavoidably
skeptical
shame
Look at the following sentence:
She said “Shanshan don’t rush into marriage with him an unworthy match.”
Which of the following words should
not be followed by a comma?
said
Shanshan
marriage
him
Look again at the sentence:
She said “Shanshan don’t rush into marriage with him an unworthy match.”
Which of the following is
not a reason for using one of the commas above?
after a series of prepositional phrases
setting off direct quotations
setting off words of direct address
setting off nonessential appositives
What is Pi’s first religion?
Christianity
Hinduism
Buddhism
Islam
Who
is not one of the religious men who meet Pi and his parents on the seaside esplanade?
a priest
a pandit
a rabbi
an imam
What does Pi believe that an atheist has that an agnostic will never possess?
a hate of the world
an ability to become a believer
a faith in things happening for a reason
a love of other people
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.
a job transfer; Mexico
political problems; Canada
criminal charges; England
Pi and his family leave _________ in _________ by _________ bound for their new home.
England; January 1980; an airplane
Sri Lanka; May 1973; an express train
Pakistan; August 1983; a charter bus
India; June 1977; a cargo ship
What does the narrator indicate is evidence that Pi’s story has a happy ending?
Pi’s loving daughter
Pi’s successful career
Pi’s strong marriage
Pi’s new zoo
Which sentence is written correctly?
“Although we had forty-six inches of heavy, wet snow last winter, the bushes appear to be all right,” Fred noted.
Although we had 46 inches of heavy wet snow last winter the bushes appear to be alright fred noted.
“Although we had forty-six inches of heavy, wet, snow last winter, the bushes appear to be all right,” Fred, noted.
Although we had forty-six inches of heavy, wet snow last winter, the bushes appear to be all right, Fred noted.
Pi uses the words “All religions are true,” and “I just want to love God” (p. 87) with whom to justify what frowned upon behavior?
Pi uses these words (one a quote from Gandhi) with Francis Adirubasamy to justify missing swimming lessons.
Pi uses these words (one a quote from Gandhi) with Satish Kumar (an atheist) to justify embracing the practices and teachings of Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam.
Pi uses these words (one a quote from Gandhi) with the Hindu Pandit to justify embracing the practices and teachings of Christianity and Islam as well as the beliefs of Hinduism.
Pi uses these words (one a quote from Gandhi) with his parents and his three religious mentors to justify embracing the practices and teachings of Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam.
Pi mentions many documented cases of “zoomorphism,” where an animal takes a different animal or a human to be one of its own kind. How does this phenomenon relate to Pi’s attitude towards religion and to his mentors’ attitudes towards him? Although his parents seem to share his mentors’ beliefs, how does Pi’s father willingly embrace the new and strange by the end of Part I?
Very much like an animal which identifies with members of another species, Pi identifies with religions outside of his first religion, Hinduism. The phenomenon known as zoomorphism resembles Pi’s predicament because it is much more common for animals and people to identify with creatures that/who share characteristics with them. The compulsion to invent a better story, to improve one’s reality and make it more livable, is such a deep-seated and natural instinct, Pi says, that even animals do it, whether unconsciously or not. For example, a lion doesn’t think a human is really a lion. But given the right conditions and the appropriate circumstance, a lion may become willing to accept the human as one of its own. Faced either with life as an orphan or life with a foster mother, what lion cub wouldn’t accept a dog as a maternal figure? The fiction improves his life immeasurably. Adding stories or religions to one's life enriches it. Pi says, "I just want to love God!" (p. 88). By the end of Part 1, both Pi and his father are ready to embrace new ideas: Pi will practice three religions and his father will move the family to Canada.
The phenomenon known as zoomorphism resembles Pi’s predicament because both Pi and animals identify with creatures that/who share characteristics with them. Pi wants to be sure that he is protected by God, and animals want to be protected by a family - even if that family is made up of animals from different species. Pi's mentors are like animals who will not accept animals of other species. Pi is like the surviving animal that will. Pi's father embraces change at the end of Part 1 because the zoo fails p. 89), and he has to find another way to support the family.
Very much like an animal which identifies with members of another species, Pi identifies with religions outside of his first religion, Hinduism. The phenomenon known as zoomorphism resembles Pi’s predicament because it is much more common for animals and people to identify with creatures that/who share characteristics with them. Just as it is as uncommon for different species to intermingle, it is fairly uncommon for members of different religions to find common ground. The doctrine-based infighting amongst the mentors when they meet Pi and his parents illustrates this point well. Contrarily, Pi finds that Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam resonate with him and thus relate to one another. Due to his aberrant beliefs, Pi is seen as an anomaly by his parents and mentors. They even go so far as to demand that Pi choose one religion and to follow only that religion’s teachings. Pi’s father seems to be the most open to accepting Pi’s strange conduct when he abruptly ends the discussion with, “Ice cream, anyone?” (p. 88). This acceptance perhaps foreshadows his own openness to the idea of moving his family to a new, strange country halfway around the world at the end of Part I. In any case, it’s interesting that Pi links his beliefs about the universality of religion to his favorite subject, animal behavior.
Pi mentions many documented cases of “zoomorphism,” where an animal takes a different animal or a human to be one of its own kind. This phenomenon relates to Pi’s attitude towards religion and to his mentors’ attitudes towards him because Pi is so insecure, he believes everything, but his mentors do not. Although his parents seem to share the beliefs of Pi's mentors, Pi’s father willingly embraces the new and strange by the end of Part I when he decides to move the family to Canada so he, too, can study all religions.