Mr. Fornnarino's English 2 Real Quiz 7 for ELL
Students
Be sure to choose each answer carefully. You get only one try to answer each question correctly!
For Questions 1-10, please mark the letter of the correct definition of the given vocabulary word.
forbearance
self-control
difficult
revulsion
a shell
disgust
persnickety
disgust
fussy
affronted
to help
offended
opaquely
cloudily
self-control
accommodate
to help
offended
misconstrue
misinterpret
self-control
retract
to withdraw
offended
carapace
a shell
disgust
arduous
self-control
difficult
Which of the following should not be capitalized?
the Moon
English class
Which of the following has been written
correctly?
Spring and Fall
Earth and Venus
How long does Pi survive at sea, and—according to him—what’s the key to his survival?
eighty-three days; fear
227 days; busyness
Why does Pi give up on trying to decipher the navigation manual and studying the stars?
He has no
way to control the boat.
He loses the manual and can’t see the stars.
Pi says, “What I saw was an upside-down town, small, quiet, and peaceable, whose citizens
went about with the sweet civility of angels” (p. 198). What literary device is he using and what is he describing?
metaphor; the sea
hyperbole; a ship
What, on the lifeboat, makes Pi homesick, and how does it make him homesick?
The smell of the flare shells reminds him of cumin.
(Cumin is a spice that makes food taste better.)
Seeing
Richard Parker reminds Pi of the zoo.
To control Richard Parker, Pi makes the tiger “green
about the gills”
(p. 204). What does this mean?
Pi
makes the tiger sick.
Pi
makes the tiger hungry.
What does Pi first see that shows him that he is getting
control of Richard Parker?
Richard
Parker gives Pi food.
Richard Parker tries to hide his feces.
Which sentence is written correctly?
Do Noah and Roy’s ownership of this boat entitle them to membership in the Second Street Yacht Club?
Do Noahs and Roys ownership of this boat entitle them two to a membership in the Second Street Yacht Club?
Which choice answers the question correctly and has no
grammatical errors?
Question:
What two measures does Pi use as a means of controlling and imposing his
territory on the lifeboat?
Pi uses his ability to make Richard Parker seasick and the sound of the whistle to impose his territory on the lifeboat. At any sign of the tiger’s incursion into his territory, the teen employs one of the measures or, preferably, both in conjunction.
Pi uses his whistle and the dark to control and impose his territory on the lifeboat. Pi blows the whistle randomly and feeds the tiger only at night, making the tiger wait for his master to eat first.
Pi talks about boredom and terror. He says, “Sometimes
your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other…Yet even these two
opposites do not remain distinct”
(p. 217).
What does Pi mean?
Pi’s
quote is a metaphor that means that boredom
and terror in a person's life are like the movements of a clock’s pendulum.
Boredom is one extreme shown when the pendulum goes to one side. Terror is
another extreme when the pendulum goes to the other side. These “opposites”
(p. 217) show two different ways people can feel in a situation. Pi says
people can feel terror when they are bored. They can feel boredom when they
feel terror. The situation that brings the two opposite feelings together is
fears or thoughts of death. Death makes people feel emotions because people
fear death in times of danger, and think about death in times of boredom.
Certainly, all readers have thoughts and fears about death, so they can
understand Pi's quote.
Pi
means that boredom
and terror are like a pendulum because
they are extremes, but
they are unlike a pendulum because
both feelings can be experienced at the same time. Obviously, a pendulum
cannot be at both sides of its swing at the same time. A situation that can
cause these emotions at the same time is a test. Tests are both boring and
terrifying. Certainly, Pi talks about boredom and terror because he wants
all readers to hate tests.