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.