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The Count of Monte Cristo PRE-INTERMEDIATE 3

Edmond was carrying. (h)False

Answers to Book activities
(e) (vi) He was an officer of the (I)True
government. (j)False – he burnt it by mistake.
1 Napoleon, Marseilles, Chateau d’lf, Cesare
(f) (i) At La Reserve. (k)False – he thought about it and
Borgia
(g) (ii) Because an officer and four completed the words.
2 a captain b ruler c courtyard d board
soldiers took him away. 5 Possible answers – but not to be given
e God
4 (a) True because students can read the true
3 a true b not true c true d true e true
(b) True answer in Chapter 11
f not true
(c) Probably true – Danglars used his left (a) He can take the place of his friend and
4 Dantes stops at Elba to give a letter to
hand to write it (Chapter 3). be carried outside the prison.
Marshal Bertrand. He meets Napoleon
(d) Probably true (b) The guards might realise that he is still
there.
(e) False – he gave the letter to Napoleon. alive, they might bury him too deeply
5 Edmond and Mercedes are in love. They
(f) False – he knows Noirtier – he is his or throw him in the sea with a weight
want to get married. Danglars does not like
father. tied to him or put him in a box which is
Edmond because Mr Morrel wants
(g) Probably true airtight – not very likely in those days.
Edmond to be captain of The Pharaoh.
(h) Probably false – Villefort has to protect Chapters 11–15
Mr Morrel likes Edmond. He thinks that he
himself.
works well. He wants Edmond to be 1 Open answers
5 The following or similar
captain of The Pharaoh. 2 The correct order is:
(a) To Chateua D’lf, an island prison
6 Open answer (b) Edmond cut open the bag.
(b) Because Villefort told them to.
7 a They keep you in. b a liquid c to God (c) Edmond cut the stone free.
(c) Bread
d for dead people (f) Edmond swam out to sea.
(d) To see the governor
8 A piece of paper in the prayer book tells (e) Edmond saw a small ship.
(e) To a room underground
Faria where he will find the treasure. (h) The men pulled Edmond onto the ship.
9–10 Open answers Chapters 6–10 (j) The ship reached Livorno.
11 a axe b customs c coins d mark e chest 1 Possible answers (d) Edmond had a shave and a hair cut.
12 After many years in prison, Dantes looks (a) good (a) Edmond bought some new clothes.
different. His face is longer and his mouth (b) bad (k) The ship sailed towards Corsica.
is harder and stronger. His eyes are dark (c) same, wrong, free (i) The ship passed the island of Monte
and thoughtful and his skin is white. His (d) important Cristo.
voice is softer and sadder. (e) crazy (I) The ship went back from Corsica to
13 Dantes returns to Marseilles to see his (f) calm Livorno.
father and to find Mercedes. After his (g) kind (g) Edmond went to a meeting of ships’
father dies, Dantes sails away from the city (h) dangerous captains.
with Mercedes. 2 (a) sound (m)The ships’captains decided to sail to
14–17 Open answers (b) tool Monte Cristo to meet a ship from
(c) pot Turkey.
(d) wall 3 (a) (vi) To find Spada’s treasure.
(e) wood (b) (vii) While the men rested.
Answers to Factsheet activities
(f) voice (c) (iii) Marks.
■ Communicative activities (g) prisoner (d) (ii) It was too big.
(h) prison (e) (v) They saw him fall.
Open answers
(i) sea (f) (i) Because they thought his leg was
■ Student’s activities (j) islands broken.
(k) room (g) (iv) More than a week.
Activities before reading the book
(I) pathway 4 (a) down
1 Because his enemies tell the government (m)soldier (b) on
that he wants to help Napoleon return to 3 The corrected word is in italics (c) from
France as its ruler. (a) The two friends passed easily along (d) at
2 & 3 Open answers the underground path. (e) into
Activities while reading the book (b) Faria made an oil lamp for himself. (f) at
(c) Edmond said ‘Aclever person doesn’t (g) into
Chapters 1–5 want to talk to a person who knows (h) on
1 (a) (iii) One of the ships of Morrel and Son nothing. (i) down
(b) (v) the First Officer then Captain of The (d) Dantes/Edmond learnt about the (j) with
Pharoah history of the world and the English (k) down
(c) (iv) the Captain of The Pharoah who language and many other things. (I) with
died (e) One day, Faria cried out in pain and (m)of f
(d) (i) a city in southern France Edmond saw deep blue circles under (n) to
(e) (vii) The island where Napoleon is living his eyes. (o) in
(f) (vi) the girl that Dantes is going to (f) Faria had some liquid for his illness in (p) of
marry a hole in the foot of his bed. (q) from
(g) (ii) an island (g) Edmond gave Faria a little of the liquid (r) of
2 (a) Edmond’s father and, at last, some colour came into his 5 Possible answers
(b) Edmond face. (a) He put a large stone over the opening
(c) Caderousse (h) Edmond went back to his own room and covered it with earth then placed
(d) Edmond when he heard the steps of the guard. quick-growing plants in the earth.
(e) Caderoouse (i) Faria couldn’t move his right arm or leg (b) Night came.
(f) Edmond and there was a pain in his head. (c) He sold four rings from the treasure.
(g) Danglars 4 (a) False – He was a friend and helper. (d) He bought a boat and sailed back.
3 (a) (iv) At her house. (b) False – A long time before his family (e) He hid it in a secret place near the top
(b) (iii) Drinking. was rich but he was not. of his bed on the boat.
(c) (v) He had to go to Paris. (c) False – he killed one of his ancestors. (f) She was in his father ’s house.
(d) (vii) He wrote to an officer of the (d) True (g) He left on his boat – with Mercedes.
government about the letter (e) True.
(f) True Activities after reading the book
(g) True Check the letter on page 25.

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