RASPBERRY PI UPDATED CORE HARDWARE
AND COMPUTING CONCEPTS REVIEW 2026
◉ (AN) Where does the author find the main character in the story?
Answer: Toronto
◉ (AN) What is the purpose of the author's note?
Answer: To tell readers that the book is written in first person but he
is not Pi and that any inaccuracies are his fault. To acknowledge all
the people who made the book possible. I guess also to prove this is
completely fictional, because apparently there was evidence of that
in there.
◉ (1) Of what does the three-toed sloth remind the narrator?
Answer: His fellow religious-study students who were muddled
agnostics who didn't know which way was up.
◉ (1) With what has death fallen in love?
Answer: Life
◉ (1) Who is Richard Parker (according to chapter 1)?
Answer: Someone the narrator loved.
,◉ (1) Why is the narrator anemic? Why is his urine brown? Why did
the water faucet have such an effect on him? Why does he eat with
his fingers (all according to chapter one)?
Answer: He is sick from his ordeal and in a hospital. The water
faucet was loud and he was not used to one so it scared him. He eats
with his fingers either because that's how he ate at home or during
his ordeal.
◉ (2) Why is Chapter Two in italics?
Answer: The author is speaking, not Pi.
◉ (3) Who is Mamaji?
Answer: Francis Adirubasamy, one of the narrator's father's first
business contacts.
◉ (3) How does the narrator, Piscine Molitor Patel, get his name?
Answer: The Piscine Molitor was Mamaji's favorite pool in France.
◉ (4) What two occupations has Piscine's father had?
Answer: Running a large hotel in Madras and running the
Pondicherry Zoo.
◉ (4) What are the two best times of day to visit a zoo?
,Answer: Sunrise and Sunset.
◉ (4) According to the narrator, animals in the wild are neither free
in ____ or ____.
Answer: According to the narrator, animals in the wild are neither
free in *space* or *in time*.
◉ (4) Animals, like most people, are conservative by nature and
don't like ____.
Answer: Change
◉ (4) The narrator states that in a zoo, we bring together in a ____
what in the wild is ____.
Answer: The narrator states that in a zoo, we bring together in a
*small space* what in the wild is *spread out*.
◉ (5) What is the correct pronunciation of Piscine's name?
Answer: Pea-seen.
◉ (5) What does Piscine do about his name when he graduates to
the secondary school?
Answer: He says his name is Pi.
, ◉ (6) Who is the subject of Chapter 6? Describe him.
Answer: A man who lives in Scarborough, is slim, and is about forty.
He dresses warmly and is an excellent cook.
◉ (7) Pi and Mr. Kumar disagree on religion, Pi describing it as ____
and Mr. Kumar as ____.
Answer: Pi and Mr. Kumar disagree on religion, Pi describing it as
*saving* and Mr. Kumar as *darkness*.
◉ (7) Pi can tolerate atheists, but not ____.
Answer: Agnostics
◉ (8) What is the most dangerous animal in a zoo?
Answer: Man
◉ (8) Who is Richard Parker?
Answer: Someone from whom Pi learned that an animal is an
animal, essentially and practically removed from us.
◉ (8) What lesson does Father teach Ravi and Pi?
Answer: Animals are dangerous.
◉ (9) What is an animal's flight distance?
AND COMPUTING CONCEPTS REVIEW 2026
◉ (AN) Where does the author find the main character in the story?
Answer: Toronto
◉ (AN) What is the purpose of the author's note?
Answer: To tell readers that the book is written in first person but he
is not Pi and that any inaccuracies are his fault. To acknowledge all
the people who made the book possible. I guess also to prove this is
completely fictional, because apparently there was evidence of that
in there.
◉ (1) Of what does the three-toed sloth remind the narrator?
Answer: His fellow religious-study students who were muddled
agnostics who didn't know which way was up.
◉ (1) With what has death fallen in love?
Answer: Life
◉ (1) Who is Richard Parker (according to chapter 1)?
Answer: Someone the narrator loved.
,◉ (1) Why is the narrator anemic? Why is his urine brown? Why did
the water faucet have such an effect on him? Why does he eat with
his fingers (all according to chapter one)?
Answer: He is sick from his ordeal and in a hospital. The water
faucet was loud and he was not used to one so it scared him. He eats
with his fingers either because that's how he ate at home or during
his ordeal.
◉ (2) Why is Chapter Two in italics?
Answer: The author is speaking, not Pi.
◉ (3) Who is Mamaji?
Answer: Francis Adirubasamy, one of the narrator's father's first
business contacts.
◉ (3) How does the narrator, Piscine Molitor Patel, get his name?
Answer: The Piscine Molitor was Mamaji's favorite pool in France.
◉ (4) What two occupations has Piscine's father had?
Answer: Running a large hotel in Madras and running the
Pondicherry Zoo.
◉ (4) What are the two best times of day to visit a zoo?
,Answer: Sunrise and Sunset.
◉ (4) According to the narrator, animals in the wild are neither free
in ____ or ____.
Answer: According to the narrator, animals in the wild are neither
free in *space* or *in time*.
◉ (4) Animals, like most people, are conservative by nature and
don't like ____.
Answer: Change
◉ (4) The narrator states that in a zoo, we bring together in a ____
what in the wild is ____.
Answer: The narrator states that in a zoo, we bring together in a
*small space* what in the wild is *spread out*.
◉ (5) What is the correct pronunciation of Piscine's name?
Answer: Pea-seen.
◉ (5) What does Piscine do about his name when he graduates to
the secondary school?
Answer: He says his name is Pi.
, ◉ (6) Who is the subject of Chapter 6? Describe him.
Answer: A man who lives in Scarborough, is slim, and is about forty.
He dresses warmly and is an excellent cook.
◉ (7) Pi and Mr. Kumar disagree on religion, Pi describing it as ____
and Mr. Kumar as ____.
Answer: Pi and Mr. Kumar disagree on religion, Pi describing it as
*saving* and Mr. Kumar as *darkness*.
◉ (7) Pi can tolerate atheists, but not ____.
Answer: Agnostics
◉ (8) What is the most dangerous animal in a zoo?
Answer: Man
◉ (8) Who is Richard Parker?
Answer: Someone from whom Pi learned that an animal is an
animal, essentially and practically removed from us.
◉ (8) What lesson does Father teach Ravi and Pi?
Answer: Animals are dangerous.
◉ (9) What is an animal's flight distance?
