Symbols
Characters
Literary Terms
Vocabulary
Chapter Reviews
100

What does the color orange symbolize?

What is hope?

100

Who are the interviewers and what is their purpose?

Who is Tomohiro Okamoto Atsuro Chiba and what is to find why the ship sank?


100

What term is writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story?

What is Foreshadowing?

100

What word is defined by wild, savage?


What is feral?

100

How did the men respond to Pi’s story?

What is not believing?

200

What does the water symbolize?

What is faith or journey?

200

Who helped pi in becoming Christian?

Who is Father Martin?

200

What term is a practice or art of using an object or a word to represent an abstract idea?

What is Symbolism?

200

What word is defined by ridiculous, laughable, absurd?

What is ludicrous?

200

What did Pi find in the tree? What was his conclusion?


What is teeth and that the island is cannabinol?

300

What does the whistle symbolize?

What is strength?

300

Who taught pi to swim and what was his family relation?

Who is Francis Adirubasamy and what is pi’s father’s friend?

300

What term is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural?

What is Allusion?

300

What word is defined by with suspicion, distrust, or disapproval?

What is askance?

300

What did Pi keep during his time out at sea?


What is a diary?

400

What does the Zebra, Orangutan, and Heyna symbolize?

What is family?

400

Who is the main character and what is his purpose?

Who is Piscine Molitor Patel and what is to live through the story?

400

What term is a style of fiction that paints a realistic view of the modern world while also adding magical elements?

What is Magical Realism?

400

What word is defined by unthinking routine or repetition, a fixed or mechanical way of doing something?


What is rote?

400

How was Pi attempting to be rescued? What was the problem?


What is shooting flares and what is wasting them all?

500

What does Richard Parker symbolize?

What is friendship?

500

Who meets pi at the zoo?

Who is The 2 Mr. Kumars?

500

What term a technique in which a writer ascribes human traits, ambitions, emotions, or entire behaviors to animals, non-human beings, natural phenomena, or objects?

What is Anthropomorphism?

500

What word is defined by a gradual reduction or weakening; a rubbing away?


What is attrition?

500

In Pi’s opinion, what is life’s only true opponent?

What is fear?