Life of Pi

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Life of Pi Study Guide Name__________________________________________Period_____Date________ Chapters 1 - 7 1) What two things did Pi study at the University of Toronto? 2) What animal did Pi study in particular and why? 3) What embarrasses Pi at the end of the chapter? 4) Who is “Mamaji”? 5) What does Mamaji introduce to the Patel Family? 6) How does Pi get his name (Piscine Molitor)? 7) What is Pi’s father’s job before he became a zookeeper? 8) What is Pi’s childhood like at the zoo? 9) When does Pi say is the best time(s) to visit the zoo and why? 10) What are some of the misconceptions Pi says people have about zoos? 11) Why does Pi say animals in the wild are not “free”? 12) What does Pi mean when he says that the animals in the zoo are less like a prisoner and more like a landholder? 13) Does the Pondicherry zoo still exist? 14) Why do the other children make fun of Pi’s name? 15) How does Pi stop the teasing? 16) Who is Mr. Satish Kumar? Where does he work? 17) What are Mr. Kumar’s religious views? 18) What happened to Mr. Kumar as a child? How did this affect his religious views? 19) Why do atheists not bother Pi? Who do agnostics bother him? (If you do not know what an agnostic is you need to look it up in a dictionary) Life of Pi Study Guide Name__________________________________________Period_____Date________ Chapters 8 - 20 1) What is the most dangerous animal in the zoo? 2) Who are the worst troublemakers at the zoo? 3) How does Mr. Patel teach Pi and Ravi about the dangerous nature of the animals at the zoo? 4) What is “at the heart of the art and science of zookeeping” (pg. 39)? 5) How does lion-taming work? 6) What is unusual about the religious images in Pi’s house? 7) What religion is Pi raised with? 8) Who does Pi say he met on holiday? 9) What religion does Pi learn about and eventually become fascinated

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