Live and Let Die Ian Fleming

Intermediate Level Points for Understanding Answer Key

1 (a) Bond picked up an English gold coin (a ‘Rose Noble of Edward the Fourth’) which was worth fifteen hundred pounds. (b) All of the gold coins that M showed Bond had been made before the year 1650. (c) Bloody Morgan, the pirate, had been Governor and Commander in Chief of Jamaica from 1675 to 1688. (d) Nearly a thousand gold coins had come into the United States in the last few months. (e) On 21st November, the train attendant Zachary Smith had sold four sixteenth- and seventeenth- century gold coins to Fein Jewels in Lennox Avenue for one hundred dollars. 2 The FBI were aware that the coins were coming into the country. But if they admitted that they knew about them, the coins would stop coming – instead, they would be melted down into gold bars and lost, which the FBI didn’t want to happen. 3 Mr Big was a black gangster who lived in Harlem, New York. He owned a yacht called the Secatur and a small island on the north coast of Jamaica. 4 (a) get money for Russian spies in America (b) the Russians / SMERSH 2 1 He took him to the St Regis hotel, at the corner of 5th Avenue and 55th Street in Manhattan, New York. 2 Mr Big. 3 (a) The FBI. (b) The FBI. (c) The CIA. 4 True. They had worked together on a casino job. 5 Because he was going to look after the Jamaican side of the case for the British.

3 1 (a) False. We do not know why he wanted to go to America. Also, he did not choose to join the American armed forces – he was made to join. (b) False. He was half French and started to work for the American Secret Service because he already spoke excellent French. (c) True. (d) True. 2 Because ‘check’ and ‘cab’ are American English words, while ‘bill’ and ‘taxi’ are British English. Bond was told to use American English so that people did not know he was British. 3 The parcel exploded and fell to the floor. Inside the parcel was a bomb and a small metal tube with a note inside it. The note read: ‘The heart of the clock has stopped ticking. The beats of your heart are numbered. I know that number and I have started to count. 1234567 …?’

4 1 (a) Jamaica, St Petersburg (in Florida) (b) shells, tropical fish 2 (a) To look after the Harlem side of the case. (b) To go to St Petersburg the next day and then on to Jamaica. (c) T o go with Bond to St Petersburg and find out what he could there, then move on to Jamaica with Bond. (d) T o tell all of Mr Big’s spies to watch for Leiter, Bond and Dexter – particularly on 1st to 8th, and the other avenues. He was also asked to call Mr Big when he knew where the men were. 3 That Bond and Leiter should stay out of Mr Big’s way. If they did not cause any problems for Mr Big, then Mr Big would not cause any problems for them. 4 Bond had a shower and put on a white shirt, his leather shoulder holster, his Beretta gun and a pair of leather shoes with metal toe-caps. Leiter coloured his blond hair black and put on a bright blue suit with a white shirt and a black-and-white spotted tie.

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5 1 Sugar Ray’s club, Ma Frazier’s restaurant, the Savoy Ballroom, the Yeah Man club and The Boneyard. 2 It was unfriendly. The streets were dirty and many of the buildings were dark and unwelcoming. 3 He paid the money to get information about where to find Mr Big that evening. 4 Because it was a special table. The table and chairs were made so that anyone sitting at the table could be suddenly moved down to the room underneath. 5 There were six men: Bond, Leiter, two guards holding Bond and Leiter, and two men with guns (one of whom was called Tee-Hee). 6 To see Mr Big (‘the Boss’).

6 1 (a) Mr Big used the intercom to call Solitaire into the room. (b) Mr Big used the riding whip to hit Solitaire across the shoulders. (c) Tee-Hee used the belt to tie Bond to a chair. (d) Solitaire pretended to use the playing cards to see if Bond was lying, instead using them to send him a secret message. 2 If Bond had been sent to America to kill him. 3 She knew at once when someone was not telling the truth. 4 She was wearing a long white evening dress which showed the shape of her beautiful body. She had diamond earrings and a diamond bracelet on her left wrist, but no rings on her fingers.

7 1 He said that he did not want lots of people asking him questions about the disappearance of Bond and Leiter, and that he had more important things to worry about at that time. 2 Tee-Hee died. Bond hit him on the head with a gun, and then kicked him down the stairs. Tee-Hee broke his neck falling down the stairs. 3 There were three gun shots. Bond fired two of them and the first black man in the garage fired the other. 4 Because his left hand was very painful – Tee-Hee had broken his little finger on that hand.

8 1 Mr Big told the FBI that a crazy Englishman had shot three of his men early that morning – a waiter at The Boneyard and two drivers – and had stolen one of his cars. It was not true that three of Mr Big’s men had been shot. Only the two drivers had been shot. 2 He made two calls (to Leiter and M) and received two (from Leiter and Solitaire). 3 (a) Mr Big. (b) Dead/Killed. (c) The FBI. (d) Felix Leiter. (e) St Petersburg. 4 He told Solitaire that the train was going to Washington, but it was really going to St Petersburg (and only through Washington).

9 1 ‘The Robber’ was Mr Big’s man in Florida. He had been asked to watch the airport at Tampa and the trains. 2 Samuel D. Baldwin, the Pullman Porter looking after Bond’s compartment, helped Bond. He warned him that he had an enemy on the train. He also gave Bond some pieces of wood to stop the compartment doors opening. 3 Correct order: (f), (c), (e), (a), (b), (d)

10 1 (a) Bond woke up. (b) The porter came to take the dishes away. (c) Bond looked at his watch and said that they should go to sleep. (d) The train was travelling between Columbia and Savannah, Georgia. (e) Bond heard someone trying to unlock the door of their compartment. 2 Bond thought the visitor was one of Mr Big’s men. 3 Bond thought the visitor was going to try to kill him during the night. 4 He managed to escape because Bond’s hand was hurting and he could not get his gun out quickly enough to shoot. Also, Bond had to push his gun into his belt before he could open the compartment door, which gave the man time to run away. 5 Because there were too many empty compartments for the man to hide in.

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11 1 Four hours. 2 Solitaire said this. She felt like a prisoner because she had been living with two other women in an apartment in Mr Big’s apartment building, and she was never allowed to go out without a guard. 3 He had strong feelings for her. 4 One of Mr Big’s spies saw Solitaire and Bond in the taxi and telephoned ‘The Robber’. The Robber told him to follow them, and to stop their taxi when it came back across the causeway. 5 Because he thought Bond might have been killed by the bomb on the train. He also expected Bond to be alone.

12 1 The bomb went off soon after the train left Waldo at about six o’clock. But Bond and Solitaire had already got off the train at five o’clock, at Jacksonville. 2 They went to St Petersburg to see if they could find ‘The Robber’. 3 It was a pelican. It was shot by the man who was sitting outside the warehouse (The Robber). 4 He said he would shoot them if they came to the warehouse again.

13 1 He was angry with himself because he had left Solitaire alone in the cottage and she had been kidnapped. 2 He had gone to visit the worm and bait warehouse again. 3 The person asked Bond to go the Mound Park Hospital to see Leiter. 4 True. The nurse said that there was no patient called Leiter and no doctor called Dr Roberts at the hospital. 5 Leiter’s injuries were probably caused by a shark. Bond had been told that Leiter had had a car accident, but this was a lie.

14 1 (a) He used the glass-cutter to cut a hole in the glass of the warehouse so that he could climb inside. (b) He used the torch to look around the warehouse – it was night-time and there were no lights on in the warehouse. (c) He used the pocket knife to take a scorpion fish out of a tank. (d) He dropped the gold coin on the floor to surprise The Robber. 2 In the sand at the bottom of tanks containing poisonous fish. 3 More than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 4 He fell through a trapdoor. There was a shark underneath it. 5 The thought of what The Robber had done to Leiter.

15 1 An FBI agent was watching Bond at the airport to make sure that he got on the plane. 2 It was a small island in the centre of Shark Bay in Jamaica, where the pirate Bloody Morgan used to keep his ships. 3 The stories said that when Bloody Morgan left Jamaica for the last time in 1683, he hid his treasure somewhere in the country, possibly on the Isle of Surprise. 4 Three men. 5 He was planning to swim underwater to the Isle of Surprise, through dark, shark-infested waters. He would then use the bomb to blow something or someone up.

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16 1 (a) The Isle of Surprise was (3) in the centre of Shark Bay. (b) The house at Beau Desert was (1) on the western side of Shark Bay. (c) Bond and Quarrel stopped to eat (4) on the eastern side of Shark Bay. (d) They were going to stay for a week (5) on the western end of the island. (e) They sailed a small boat (2) up the coast to Bloody Bay. 2 The ‘Undertaker’s Wind’ blew the bad air out of the island at night. Bond was going to kill Mr Big during the night – so his job was also to take something bad away from the island at night. 3 Strangways brought the following pieces of news: (1) Felix Leiter had lost an arm and a leg, but he was going to live. (2) The Secatur was going to sail the next day for Surprise and would arrive before dark. (3) Mr Big and Solitaire were on the boat. 4 After six o’clock the next morning.

17 1 First, an octopus attacked him. He used his dagger and then the harpoon gun to escape. After that, a large barracuda bit Bond’s shoulder, then swam away. The barracuda then tried to attack him a second time, but Bond shot it in the mouth with the harpoon gun. 2 Just after six o’clock the next morning. 3 He had seen Bond’s air bubbles on the surface of the water as Bond swam across the bay. 4 The pot was being used to melt down the gold treasure into bars of gold.

18 1 False. She was lying under a blanket. 2 Tee-Hee Johnson, Sam Miami, McThing and The Robber. 3 Because Bond had put a limpet mine on the bottom of the Secatur. The mine was timed to explode at a few minutes past six o’clock. If Bond and Solitaire were still on the jetty beside the boat when it exploded, they would be killed as well as Mr Big. 4 The explosion and the big fish (sharks and barracudas). 5 Because he and Solitaire were still alive, he had just killed Mr Big, and Quarrel was coming in a canoe to rescue them. Also, a fresh, north-easterly wind had started to blow and the sun was beginning to shine down on the water, and he was admiring the soft green hills of Jamaica.

19 1 (a) keep away (from Beau Desert) (b) arrest, gold smuggling (c) put in a claim for the treasure, take two weeks’ holiday (d) make a special dinner (e) look after him and help him to get better

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