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Forrest Gump PRE-INTERMEDIATE 3 Penguin Readers Answer Key l e v e l Forrest Gump PRE-INTERMEDIATE 3 (f) He can run very fast. President. Answers to book activities (g) Because he pulls Jenny’s dress open by (f) he pulls his trousers down and shows mistake in the cinema. the President where he was shot. 1 Open answers 2 Open answers 2 Open answers 2 a army b coach, goal Chapter 2 Chapter 7 c idiot 1 (a) Jenny knew Forrest when they were (a)Because just before he leaves the d boiler both children at his first ‘ordinary’ hospital in Danang he gets a letter from e grenade school. She was the only girl who didn’t her. He goes to look for her when he is 3 a page 6 b pages 13 and 15 run away from him. She was kind to back in America. 4 c, a, d, b, e him. When they meet again they are (b) Many young people in America - 5-7 Open answers both older and they go to the cinema especially in California - were like Jenny 8 a chess b medal c shrimp together. Jenny meets Forrest again and her friends in the 1960s and 1970s. 9 a page 18 b page 36 when he is at university. The men had beards and the women had 10 army (b) Curtis lives in the same room as Forrest long untidy hair. They wore dirty jeans. 11 He is killed in Vietnam. at university. He isn’t very tall but he is They wore flowers in their hair and talked 12 Mr Chi very strong. He isn’t very nice to Forrest about love. Many of them were against 13 They are unhappy about the war in and doesn’t talk to him much. the war in Vietnam. Vietnam. They want to show everybody that (c) Forrest meets Bubba at university and (c) Open answers they think it is wrong. he is friendly to Forrest. He broke his (d) No. Her boyfriend leaves her in this 14 They have breakfast and watch television. foot in football practice. He plays the chapter. She says he left her ‘like all the 15 a To hear Jenny’s group playing at the harmonica and is very pleased that others’and she starts to cry when she Hodaddy Club. Forrest plays so well. He gives his tells Forrest this. So she has not been b To see Jenny again. harmonica to Forrest. happy with her boyfriends. c To go into space. 2 Open answers (e) Probably Forrest. He has received a 16-18 Open answers 3 Open answers medal from the President! He has done 19 a Forrest b Forrest c Mr Tribble other very interesting things too, for d Mr Tribble Chapter 3 example, played in important football 20 Jenny’s mother 1 Open answers games and saved people in the war. 21 The woman in the ticket office at the bus 2 (a) Because he has to go in the army. (f) She is against it. station says it’s a nice town. (b) Open answers (g) They become lovers instead of just 22 He’s playing his harmonica. friends. 23 a football player Chapter 4 24 He gives some to his mother, some to 1 (a) Because he uses the boiler to cook in. It Chapter 8 Bubba’s father and the rest to Jenny and blows up and blows food over everyone. (a) Right little Forrest. (b) The ground begins to move all around (b) Wrong. She spent one night in prison. 25-28 Open answers them. There are men with blood all over (c) Right them. (d) Wrong. They put Forrest in prison (c) Bubba because he threw his medal away and it Answers to Factsheet activities (d) She left school and went off with a hit one of the President’s men. group of people who were against the (e) Wrong. He didn’t stay in prison long ■ Communicative activities Vietnam War. because they realized he was an idiot. Open answers except: 2 Open answers (f) Wrong. He went up into space with an ape and a woman. Chapter 5 Activities after reading a section (g) Right 1 (a) Because he saves Doyle. He also runs Chapters 5-8 (h)The ape was male. fast, shouting and screaming and (i) Wrong. Forrest met Big Sam in the Fighting in Vietnam. Meeting Bubba in the frightens the enemy soldiers away. He jungle. jungle. Saving Doyle in the jungle. Meeting the saves another man who is hurt too. President of the USA. Meeting the people who (b) Because Bubba asks him to and Bubba Chapter 9 were against the Vietnam War. Playing the is dying. 1 (a) factory, (b) two hundred, (c) win, lose, harmonica with Jenny’s group. Going to prison. (c) Because Bubba was dead and the (d) money, (e) loved, (f) bad Going up into space. Living in the jungle with shrimp business was dead with him. 2 Open answers Sue, the ape. Also, Forrest saw many people die that night in a terrible way. Chapter 10 ■ Student’s activities (d) He goes to the hospital there because (a) Forrest learnt to play chess in the jungle Activities before reading the book somebody shot him in the leg. with Big Sam. He met a little old man, Mr 1 (a) (vi), (b) (iii), (c) (v), (d) (ii), (e) (i), (f) (iv) 2 Open answers Tribble and played chess with him in a chess tournament. Forrest was very good 2 Open answers Chapter 6 at chess and Mr Tribble took Forrest to Activities while reading the book 1 (a) Mr Chi catches and sells shrimps and another bigger chess tournament in Los Chapter 1 Forrest wants to learn about the shrimp Angeles. Forrest got to the final and business. played against a Russian, Honest Ivan. 1 (a) He says he was ‘born an idiot’. He can (b) the President gives him a medal for his Honest Ivan was the best player in the think, but sometimes when he writes bravery in the war. world. Just when Ivan was winning, Sue things down or talks, things come out all (c) people who are against the war run after the ape ran across the room and jumped wrong. him and try to catch him. on the table. (b) A big box of bananas fell on him and (d) she wants to be rude to him. She is (b)In Los Angeles Mr Tribble took Forrest to killed him. against the Vietnam War and hates men see some people who were making a (c) Three who were brave in the war. Forrest looks film. One of these people saw Forrest (d) She is friendly to Forrest - most children big and strong so she calls him an ape. and asked him to act in a film because he aren’t. Also, she is very pretty. (e) Forrest is hungry and his stomach was so big and strong. Forrest was asked (e) Because he is big and strong and can makes a noise when he is talking to the to act with Raquel Welch in a film about run fast. So he plays football very well. the jungle. © Pearson Education 2000 Penguin Readers Answer Key l e v e l Forrest Gump PRE-INTERMEDIATE 3 Chapter 11 1 (a) Forrest’s mother lives in Mobile. Forrest goes to see her after the chess tournament. (b) Bubba’s parents live in Bayou la Batre. Forrest goes to see them to talk about the shrimp business that he and Bubba planned. (c) Jenny married two years ago and lives in North Carolina. (d) Forrest decides to take long holiday. The woman in the ticket office suggests that he goes to Savannah, so he decides to go there. 2 (a) Because he has discovered that Jenny is married. He understands that she couldn’t marry him because he is an ‘idiot’. Also, he knows that he lost her because he did something bad - he bet that he would win a fight. That was an ‘idiot’ thing to do. (b) Because he knows he has lost Jenny. (c) He decides to work hard. (d) Seventy-five thousand dollars. (e) Because he doesn’t know what he is working so hard for. (f) Open answers Chapter 12 1 Jenny’s husband is called Donald. He has a business in Savannah. They came there three years ago. She has a son called Forrest and he is Forrest’s son. She knew about this when she left Forrest but she didn’t want to say anything. She was worried that perhaps he would be an idiot. But her son is very clever. 2 (a) He gives some money to his mother and some to Bubba’s daddy. He gives the rest to Jenny and little Forrest. (b) Open answers Activities after reading the book 1 Forrest meets Jenny again at High School. He meets her again at university. He meets Bubba for the second time in the jungle in Vietnam. He meets Sue the ape again when he acts in the film with Raquel Welch. He goes to Savannah for a holiday and meets Jenny there. 2 Perhaps he is trying to say that it doesn’t matter if you have difficulties in your life. You can still have a wonderful, full, exciting life. Forrest has many difficulties but they don’t stop him from doing all kinds of things. He has a big heart and is brave and loving. He never gives up hope, he just starts again.
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