Solucionario Slumdog Millionaire

Intermediate Level

Points for Understanding Answer Key

Slumdog Millionaire
Vikas Swarup
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He was tied to a beam in a prison cell.

2 Because he wanted Ram to sign a piece of paper saying that he had cheated on the quiz show and
that he would not take any prize.
3 Because he had never seen the woman before and he didn’t have a lawyer.
4 Ram agreed to do this because his luckycoin told him that he could trust Smita. Smita wanted to
find out the truth about whether he cheated or not.
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Father Timothy called the boy Ram Mohammad Thomas. The first name was Hindu, the second
Muslim and the third Christian. The names would help him to get on with people of all religions.

2 Ram learnt to speak English. He also learnt about different religions from FatherTimothy and the
street children and their parents.
3 Father Timothy told Ram that he was not his real father, but his priest, and that Ram was an
orphan.
4 Prem Kumar presented the quiz Who Will Win a Billion? He changed the first question to one that
Ram could answer. He wanted the boy to win a little money.
5 He had seen the letters INRI on a crucifix in Father Timothy’s church.
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TheDelhi Children’s Home for Boys was crowded, noisy and dirty compared to Father Timothy’s
house. But for many of the other boys who came from slums or had been badly treated, it was a
good home compared to what they were used to.

2 They were both orphans, with no hope of finding a family, and they both enjoyed watching films.
3 The fortune-teller said that Salim would be a very famous actorand that Ram would have many
problems. He gave Ram a lucky one-rupee coin.
4 Sethji was a big man who sometimes visited the Children’s Home. He was rich and looked like a
gangster. He lived in Mumbai, where he had a school. Sethji chose boys from the Children’s Home
to take to his school and teach them there.
5 His real name was Babu Pillai, but he was also called Maman. He came from Kollam inKerala, but
had lived in Mumbai for a long time. His school was a school for disabled children.
6 The boys thought their new lives in Mumbai would be a great chance to get a good education and
have successful lives.
7 Because Maman and his guards were going to blind them and send them on trains to beg for
money by singing Surdas.
8 The boys ran away. They wanted to find the actress, NeelimaKumari, and ask her for a job.

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Pointsfor Understanding Answer Key

She had a big TV, a DVD player, a video recorder, film magazines that had her picture on the front,
video cassettes of all her films and all her acting awards.

2 Neelima asked Ram to live in her flat. She also went out more often and sometimes stayed out all
night.
3 Sometimes Neelima told Ram to stay in the chawl. One morning, he went back to the flat veryearly
and saw a man leaving the flat.
4 The man was tall and he was wearing blue jeans and a white shirt. He was a cruel man, because
every time he visited Neelima he hit her, cutting her face or giving her a black eye.
5 Neelima’s ‘greatest role’ was when she killed herself. She had made herself look beautiful and
watched the video of her greatest film, before dying alone with the ‘BestActress’ award in her
hand.
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He was an old soldier. He was tall and thin and had only one leg.

2 The war was in 1971, and India and Pakistan were fighting each other.
3 A man who was collecting money for a soldiers’ charity told them the truth about Balwant Singh.
4 Balwant Singh was not a war hero. He had run away from the fighting and lost his leg when his
home was bombed.
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