Life Of pi Flashcards

1
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Zoology -______

Kabbalah- ________

A

Science

Religion

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2
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______-project human qualities in things

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Anthropomorphism 🚶

Zoomorphism 🐔

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What is ANTHROPOMORPHISM.

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Project human 🚶qualities on things

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4
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What is zoomorphism?

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Project animal traits on things 🐔

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5
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What is Pi’s full name?

A

Piscine Molitor Patel

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6
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What did Pi write on the board at Petit Seminaire?

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My name is 
Piscine Molitor Patel
Known to all as 
Pi Patel
(Pi symbol) = 3.14
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7
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Who is Pi’s bio teacher?

A

Mr.Satish Kumar

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8
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_____-science

____- religion

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Zoology

Kabbalah

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9
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______an ancient JEWISH MYSTICAL TRADITION based on an ESOTERIC interpretation of the OLD TESTAMENT

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Kabbalah

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10
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_______(1534-1572) on whose cosmogony theory Pi wrote his fourth-year religion these, is considered the FATHER OF CONTEMPORY KABBALAH

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Luria

LU RIA

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_______ or _______ is a term used by Luria to explain how God, being infinite, created the universe which is finite. He said God began the process of creation by “contracting” his infinite light to allow a space in which finitude could exist. Luria made the first creative act a concealment rather than a revelation.

A

Tsimtsum

Tzimtzum

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12
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For Pi when the ________ sinks, everything contracts, and he is the lone member (with the exception of Richard Parker, et al. Of a very new universe. He has to begin anew

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Tsimtsum

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13
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_________: very obscure, secret

A

Esoteric

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14
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____:where words originate from

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Etemology

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15
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_____: the universe

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Cosmogony

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16
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_____-> genesis the beginning

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Gonia