Religion
The reason Pi says "I would like to pray outside without getting my pants dirty" (72).
What is prayer rug?
Who is Ravi?
Mrs. Gandhi's takeover "finally got the best of Father. ... The camel at the zoo was unfazed, but ______."
What was "the straw that broke Father's [(the camel's)] back."
Mr. Kumar had never seen one of these.
What is a zebra?
Robinson Crusoe
What is the classic novel that foreshadows Pi's sea adventure?
"If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?" (740).
What is Pi's logic for wanting to be Muslim, Hindu, and Christian.
Mamaji has two of these for separate reasons.
What are French and Indian passports?
"Perhaps Piscine is marching" to this.
What is "a different drumbeat"? (75) or "to the beat of his own drum."
"There are confirmed stories of drowning sailors being pushed up to the surface of water and help there by" these.
What is a dolphin?
"Why climb this Mount Everest of formalities that make you feel like a beggar? Why enter this jungle of foreignness where everything is new, strange and difficulty?" (77).
What are metaphors?
"The water trickled down my face and down my neck; though just a beaker's worth, it had the refreshing effect of a monsoon rain" (77).
What is Pi's baptism?
"The New India split to pieces and collapsed in Father's mind. Mother assented" (79).
What is the reason Pi's family left India?
That's "the Rolls-Royce of equids" (84).
What is a zebra?
Lincoln Park Zoo, Minnesota Zoo, Los Angeles Zoo, Louisville Zoo, Oklahoma City Zoo, and Cincinnati Zoo
Where the Pondicherry Zoo animals were sold.
"but do they have Gold Flake cigarettes? Do they have Arun ice cream? Are the bicycles heroes? Are the televisions Onidas? Are the cars Ambassadors? Are the bookshops Higgenbothams'?
What are rhetorical questions?
"There have been Christians and Muslims in India for centuries! Some people say ___________ was buried in Kashmir" (72).
Who is Jesus?
"We'll sail like Columbus!"
Who is father?
"Things didn't turn out the way they were supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it" (91).
What is the way Pi felt about leaving India?
This "lived for several weeks with the vipers ... built ... a nest, stored ... grains ... in various hideaways and scampered about in plain sight of the vipers" (85).
What is a little brown mouse?
What is alliteration AND imagery?
Pi can barely remember this person's face and voice.
Who is Pi's mother?
"Any business is __________, and none more so than small b business" (78).
What is risky business?
What is a lion cub?