FORREST GUMP ANSWER KEY

1. Matching exercise:

braces: metal supports, i.e. for legs, teeth (k)

let rooms out: rent rooms as a boarding house (n)

miracle: keramet (j) extraordinary thing with no logical explanation

co-ed: short for co-educational, meaning mixed gender (p)

shrimping business: business catching and selling shrimp (e)

drill sargeant, lieutenant: positions in the army (m)

“ a lot to live up” : a lot to prove yourself equal to, high expectations (a)

nape (napalm): destructive chemical used in the Vietnam war (f)

bullet: small piece of metal shot from a gun (r)

destiny: fate, what you are destined to do (h)

cripple: insulting word for disabled (i)

cheat someone out of something: take something from someone by trickery (s)

wounded: seriously hurt or injured (o)

buttocks: behind, more commonly known as “butt” (d)

V.A.: veterans’ association (t)

first mate: person who assists the ship captain (l)

discharge papers: documents stating you may leave the army (g)

sea legs: an idiom for being ready to travel in a boat (b)

whopper: slang for a complicated lie (q)

be messed up: be unhealthy, mentally or physically (c)

2. Questions:

1. Nike2. Ping pong3. An ice cream4. He is from Alabama

FORREST GUMP ANSWER KEY5. Apple6. peas and carrots7. five (Bubba was the last one and died in his arms)8. She told Forrest not to be a hero and run as fast as he can when there is trouble9. $ 25.00010. Elvis, John Lennon, President Kennedy, President Johnson, President Nixon

3. Who said it, to whom and in what context?

1. The principal of the school to Forrest. He’s just had sex with Forrest’s mum and this will allow Forrest to attend the school instead of being sent to a special school.

2. Lieutenant Dan to Forrest and Bubba when they first arrive in Vietnam. The orders are: 1) keep your socks dry 2) not be killed

3. The doctor of Greenbow when Forrest got the braces in his legs set.4. A fat man who had been siiting on the bench at the bus stop listening to Forrest’s

story. He couldn’t believe he had been sitting next to a millionaire!5. Forrest explaining President Johnson where the bullet in Vietnam had wounded

him. He was at the White House in a reception.6. Jenny telling Forrest why she had behaved so strangely in the past (drugs, hippie

life,etc)7. Lieutenant Dan to Forrest when they both were at the army hospital. He wanted to

die with honour in the battlefield like the other men in his family. Forrest saved him and now Lt. Dan was a cripple.