Life of Pi exam 2024/2025 with 100% correct answers
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Life of Pi
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Life Of Pi
who is Richard Parker? correct answersa Royal Bengal tiger
what does pi do after Richard Parker boards the lifeboat? correct answershe realizes the danger in sharing a tiny space with a vicious animal and throws himself into the roiling water
what is the name of the boat that sinks? correct a...
who is Richard Parker? correct answersa Royal Bengal tiger
what does pi do after Richard Parker boards the lifeboat? correct answershe realizes the danger in
sharing a tiny space with a vicious animal and throws himself into the roiling water
what is the name of the boat that sinks? correct answersTsimtsum
what does pi do before he realizes the ship is sinking? correct answerspi is sleeping when a loud noise,
perhaps an explosion, wakes him. He tries to wake Ravi so they can go exploring together, but Ravi stays
asleep. Pi passes his parents' cabin door and climbs up to the main deck, where he sees that it is raining.
The boat is listing considerably to one side and making awful groaning noises; Pi begins to feel afraid. He
tries to run back down to the level of the ship where his family is, but the stairwell is full of water
how does pi escape the sinking ship? correct answerspi goes back up to the main deck, where he hears
animals shrieking. Three Chinese crewmen put a life jacket on him and throw him over the side of the
ship. He falls forty feet through the air before landing on a tarpaulin partially covering a lifeboat hanging
from the ship's side. A Grant's zebra jumps into the lifeboat after him, smashing down onto a bench. The
lifeboat falls into the water
what does pi do after jumping into the water? correct answersthe narrative moves forward again to the
moment just after Pi jumps from the lifeboat into the water to escape Richard Parker. A shark cuts
through the water nearby and Pi is terrified. He looks into the boat but sees only the zebra, not the tiger.
He slips back into the water but sees another shark and quickly hoists himself up onto an oar hanging off
the edge of the ship. He dangles a few feet above the water, holding on for dear life
how does the zebra board the lifeboat? correct answersthe zebra survives a much less graceful fall from
the ship coming out with a broken leg
how does Richard Parker board the lifeboat? correct answersRichard Parker, in a state of shock and
panic, swims through turbulent ocean waters to clamber aboard a lifeboat
, how does orange juice board the lifeboat? correct answersOrange Juice, having somehow evaded the
ocean's gravity and the suction of the sinking ship, magically appears out of nowhere to join this group
of survivors
why do the crewmen throw pi into the water (according to pi)? correct answerspi realizes that the crew
members must have thrown him into the lifeboat as bait for the hyena, hoping to clear the lifeboat for
themselves
how does pi first feel about the hyena? correct answerspi is fearful of the hyena but decides that the
upfront aggression of a dog is preferable to the slyness and stealth of a jungle cat
who is Orange Juice? correct answersan orangutan named Orange Juice, once a star animal at the
Pondicherry Zoo and the mother of two male orangutans, floats up to the lifeboat on a raft of bananas
tangled up in a net. She boards the lifeboat, seemingly in shock
what does pi clinging to the oar symbolize? correct answersthe strongest message of this section is the
fierce, unrelenting power with which life will fight to stave off death. in retrospect, Pi says, "Had I
considered my prospects in light of reason, I surely would have given up and let go of the oar, hoping
that I might drown before being eaten." But the sheer will to live outweighs logical thought, and so he
clings to the oar, and to life
what is orange juice's survival of the ship's sinking meaningful to the story? correct answersthe
appearance of Orange Juice is particularly moving, since she is the most humanlike of all the creatures
that manage to board the lifeboat; her presence emphasizes the loss of human life
how does orange juice parallel Mrs. Patel? correct answersshe is a maternal figure. Pi tells us that she
gave birth to two boys at the Pondicherry Zoo, and the parallel between Orange Juice and Mrs. Patel
(who also has two sons, Pi and Ravi) is striking
how does pi not waking his parents for help a turning point in his story? correct answersit is the turning
point in an adolescent boy's life, when he must navigate the rough waters between the security of family
life and the independence of adulthood. just before the sinking of the Tsimtsum, Pi hesitates and then
walks past his parents' cabin door, a hint at his desire to become independent. but the loss of his family
leaves him inconsolable and unsure of what to do. However, life goes on, with muscle aches to match
emotional pain, and he must figure out how to fend for himself in a lonely, confusing, and even violent
world
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