Chapters 3–5 1. Describe how Pi comes to be named after a French swimming pool.
2. Pondicherry Zoo, which once loomed so large in Pi's life, is now only a place
of memory. Describe a childhood experience or place which has "shrunk" in
your memory.
3. Pi does not agree with people who "think animals in the wild are 'happy
because they are 'free” (15). Why?
4. Describe how and why Piscine Molitor Patel becomes “Pi".
5. Pi writes his name on the blackboard with every teacher during the day. He
says that “repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of
humans" (23). Explain.

Cite evidence what moment might be called the climax, or highest point of tension, in act v? what is clear to the audience and to macbeth at this point?

Esther is a person and who makes friends easily. parallel structure how?

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.