FOREST GUMP – Part 1 h) I don’t recall my first present but I do

remember when I heard the sweetest

Who said this? In what scene?
a) I wish I had shoes like those.
b) My feet hurt
c) Mom always had a way of explaining
things so I could understand them.
d) If god intended to make everyone the
same, he’d have given us all braces on
our legs
e) She wanted me to have the finest
education
f) I met the principal and all.
g) He might be a little on the slow side but
my Forest is gonna get the same
opportunities as anyone else
Questions:
voice in the world
i) My legs are crooked like a question
mark and these are gonna make me
straight as an arrow
j) Jenny and me were like peas and
carrots
k) Are you retarded or just plain stupid?
l) I could run like the wind blows
m) Some nights she would sneak out and
come over to my house just cause she
said she was scared
n) Quit it!
o) It was nice talking to you.
p) I remember that time when Wallace
got shot, I was in college

1. The film starts with a scene in which Forest is sitting at the station talking to a lady, apparently a
nurse. Why doesn’t she respond?
2. What does Forest say about the chocolates?
3. At what point does the nurse only start engaging in the conversation?
4. As a child, why did Forest use to need to wear “special shoes”?
5. How did Forest get his name?
6. Where did Forest and his mom live?
7. What was so special about their house?
8. How did his mother make money?
9. Where was Forest’s father?
10. Who did Forest help become famous when he was just a little boy? How?
11. Why didn’t the other kids on the bus want to sit with Forest?
12. Why did Forest like Jenny apart from the fact that she looked and sounded like an angel to him?
13. What miracle did Forest describe that happened in his childhood?
14. Why didn’t Jenny want to come home?
15. Did God ‘help’ Jenny the day she was praying with Forest in the field?
16. How did his running skill get Forest a place in college?
17. Did he play football well?
18. Why was college time a confusing time according to Forest?
19. Did Forest and Jenny go to the same college? How did Forest make up for this?
20. What happened one evening outside Jenny’s dorm?
21. Who did Jenny want to be?
22. What was so funny about the scene in Jenny’s student dorm?
23. Who was the 2nd American president that Forest met?
24. What was the best thing about a visit to the White House according to Forest?
25. Why was it awkward for him?
26. What else did Forest mention about the Kennedys?
Examples of illiterate English

Jenny and me was best friends

We ain’t strangers anymore

Where are you at?

He had himself a heart attack