Plot
Pi was named after this
What is the Piscine Molitor, a pool in France?
"His house is a temple. In the entrance hall hangs a framed picture of Ganesha, he of the elephant head."
Who is the author/narrator?
This is the color of Islam.
Green
The zoo the black panther escaped from.
What is the Zurich zoo?
The hyena was up again in an instant, every hair on its body as erect as the hairs on my head, but its hostility wasn't quite so kinetic now.
What is personification?
The amount of time Pi was adrift in the Pacific Ocean
What is 227?
"In a lifeboat? Come on, Mr. Patel, it's just too hard to believe?"
Who is Mr. Chiba?
Sometime that afternoon I saw the first specimen of what would become a dear, reliable friend of mine.
Who is the turtles?
"Among zookeepers, Goliath's death is famous; he was a bull elephant seal, a great big venerable beast of two tons, star of his European zoo, loved by all visitors." This was the method of his death.
What is being fed a broken beer bottle?
The calm sea opened up around me like a great book.
What is simile?
Pi uses this object to tame Richard Parker and Richard Parker's what.
What is the orange whistle and Richard Parker's tendency to suffer sea sickness?
"I have a story that will make you believe in God."
Who is Francis Adirubasamy?
Pi kills his first fish using this method.
What is the fish blanket?
What Pi is refering to when he says, "Its eye, the size of my head, was looking directly at me."
What is a whale?
"Normally I'm a sound sleeper. Normally I would have gone back to sleep."
What is parallel structure?
After Pi washes ashore in Mexico, he tells his story to two Japanese transportation ministry officers. Unsatisfied, they ask for what?
What is the "real" story without animals?
"Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart."
Who is grown-up Pi?
A tiger's sign that it is comfortable and showing signs of friendship.
What is prusten?
The color of Pi's daughter's cat.
What is orange?
It was a pool the gods would have delighted to swim in.
What is the metaphor?
When Pi suffers blindness, he comes across another blind man, one of French ethnicity. In an act of desperation, the blind man attempts to do this.
What is eat Pi?
"If we had politicians like these goats and rhinos we'd have fewer problems in our country. Unfortunately we have a prime minister who has the armour plating of a rhinoceros without any of its good sense."
Who is Mr. Kumar, the biology teacher?
The illness Mr. Kumar (the biology teacher) suffered from as a child.
What is Polio?
Pi learned "the lesson that an animal is an animal, essentially and practically removed from us, twice" from these two characters.
Who are Santosh Patel and Richard Parker?
"It seemed the presence of a tiger had saved me from a hyena--surely a textbook example of jumping from the frying pan into the fire."
What is irony?