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The Firm Book key 1 a agent, associate, client, cop, Mafia, victim b badge 2 a They are islands in the Caribbean. They are a good place for businesses to hide money from the taxman, with three hundred banks and 12,000 head offices there. b Like Grisham, McDeere comes from a poor family, goes to university and becomes a lawyer. 3 a Chapter 2 b Chapters 3, 9, 23, 25 c Chapters 1, 7, 12, 17, 19 4 a 3 b 1 c 7 d 10 e 6 f 2 g 8 h 4 i 5 j 9 5 a The twenty partners choose the people they want to become associates. The partners have the best offices, their own dining room and kitchen. Associates want to become partners so they work hard and keep everything about the firm secret. b They are good friends and the McDeeres go to the Quins’ house for dinner the Thursday before Mitch is due to start work. c Both are members of the firm and they are worried about the firm’s bugs. They are both killed when there is an explosion on their boat on Grand Cayman. d Mitch is appointed to work with Tolleson, one of the partners. He teaches Mitch how things are done at the firm. e DeVasher gets his orders from Lazarov, who is in Chicago. 6 a The firm likes its members to have steady marriages, and babies are encouraged. Wives are not forbidden to work. b Members get two weeks a year for the first five years. If the beach houses in the Cayman Islands are not being used by partners, members can use them for their holidays. c The firm does not like its members to drink at lunch-time. They do not like heavy drinking at any time. d Members have very little privacy, if any. The firm has a security room with a guard and a number of television surveillance screens. They tape their members’ private telephone conversations and put bugs and cameras in their houses.

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e They consider killing members who talk to the FBI. It seems probable that they have killed members who do not keep the firm’s secrets. 7 a Mitch is determined to become a partner in less time than anyone else ever has before. He is determined to earn more money for the firm than any associate ever has before. DeVasher, Lambert and Locke think he cannot keep working so many hours. b Abby is not very happy that Mitch works such long hours. c Ray is in prison for accidentally killing a man in a bar fight. He got fifteen years for his crime and has done four of them. 8–9 Open answers 10 3: b, c, d 11 a car crash b a bullet in his head c shot himself d explosion on a boat e explosion on a boat 12 a Eddie Lomax b Tammy c Avery Tolleson d Mitch 13 a Their deaths weren’t accidental. b Their deaths may not have been an accident. The boatman seems to have been a drug smuggler. c His son Philip, who was killed, had nothing to do with drugs. The boat was a long way from where it was supposed to be. Philip hadn’t used the radio to inform the school about their new position, which was very unusual. He hadn’t radioed any engine trouble either. The boat’s engine exploded but the three bodies were unharmed and in full diving clothes. The three experienced divers had just drowned. 14 a Wayne Tarrance says this to Mitch as his third warning because Mitch will have to give his life to the firm for the money he earns. b Locke says this to Mitch about Tarrance because Tarrance is from the FBI and he is investigating the firm. Locke does not want any of the firm’s secrets to be given to the FBI. He wants Mitch to fear for his future if he talks to Tarrance again. c DeVasher says this to himself when he studies the photographs of Mitch with the woman on the beach. He can use these photos to trap Mitch. The Firm - Answer keys

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The Firm 15–16 Open answers 17 a 2 b 1 c 5 d 4 e 3 f 6 18 3: a, c 19 a A stolen lorry drove straight into Alice Knauss’s car and the driver was never found. Robert Lamm’s death was almost certainly murder as he was found in an area where hunters do not usually go. Mickel’s death was strange because his final letter to his wife was typed, he did not own a gun, and the gun that killed him was an old one used by criminals in the past. b The firm is owned by a Mafia family in Chicago called Morolto. Only about a quarter of the firm’s work is ‘clean’. After a lawyer has been working there for five or six years, the firm tells him the truth about the firm. By then it is too late to get out of it. If a lawyer tries to leave, they kill him. 20–22 Open answers 23 a 3 b 2 c 2 d 2 e 1 24 a A b A c A d T e T f A g A h T i T j A 25 a Tammy is asking Mitch if they will exchange briefcases with files from the firm again at twelve o’clock the next day. b Mitch is talking to Tarrance about what he wants in return for the files. He wants the FBI to get Ray out of prison and he does not care if they do it legally or if they help him escape. c Abby says this to Mitch because she wants DeVasher and the firm, who are listening to every word, to think that she may leave Mitch. d DeVasher says this to the engineer when he hears the tape of Abby leaving Mitch. DeVasher means that Abby is their best way of controlling Mitch, and he is afraid that this won’t work any more if Abby leaves him. e Tammy says this to Abby when she phones her from Avery’s bedroom in the beach house. She means that Tolleson is feeling so bad from the alcohol and sleeping powder that he couldn’t possibly make love to her. 26 a the FBI b Palumbo c McDeere has met Tarrance six times and tomorrow he will get a million dollars from the FBI for the files he has copied. d two hundred thousand dollars


27–28 Open answers 29 a T b F c T d T e T f F g T h F i T j F 30 a Aaron Rimmer is working for DeVasher and he is following Mitch. b Victor Milligan is the partner that Mitch is going to work with while Avery is away for two months. c The Doctor is making new documents for Mitch, Abby and Tammy. He and Eddie were friends. d Alfred is the name that Tarry Ross uses when he meets the Palumbo family. He uses this name with Cozzo when he meets him to give him all the information on McDeere. e Judge Hugo is the name that Tarrance uses to warn Mitch that he is in immediate danger. When Mitch hears the words ‘Judge Hugo’, he knows that he has to run. f Rachel James is the name that Mitch wants Abby to use at the hotel in Mobile. This name will make it hard for the firm to find her. g Sam Fortune is the name that Mitch uses when he flies to Cincinnati. This name will make it harder for the firm to find him. 31–33 Open answers 34 a Nashville b Ray c Rachel James (Abby) d Jackie Nagel e Joey Morolto f FBI agents g Mitchell McDeere h Andy Patrick i Aaron Rimmer j Abby 35 a Andy Patrick warns Mitch that men are knocking on all the doors in the hotel. Then he delivers the packet from the Doctor. He safely keeps the files and film for the FBI in the hotel. b The Doctor sends Mitch new documents and passports for the three of them. c Abanks arrives at the pier in a boat and takes Mitch, Abby and Ray away. He teaches them about boating and about the Cayman Islands. d Tammy phones Tarrance and tells him where he can find the files and film. 36– 45 Open answers

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9 a 8 b 7 c 4 d 10 e 1 f 6 g 2 h 5 i 9 j 3 10 a Tammy b Vinnie Cozzo c DeVasher d Lambert e A prison guard f Ross g Voyles h Mitch 11 a 3 b 4 c 1 d 2 12 a 5 b 4 c 3 d 6 e 2 f 1

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1 a 3 b 5 c 6 d 1 e 8 f 7 g 2 h 4 2 Open answers 3 a Mitch b Locke c Avery d Avery e Locke f Abby g Tarrance h Ray 4 a T b T c F d T e F 5– 6 Open answers 7 a 4 b 3 c 1 d 2 e 5 8 a 5 b 1 c 6 d 3 e 4 f 2

1 a 3 b 5 c 4 d 2 e 1 f 6 2 a 5 b 6 c 1 d 2 e 4 f 3 3 a because b so c so d because e so f because g because 4 a lies b parents c bikini d terrible e two f dirty g later h prison 5 a 5 b 6 c 8 d 7 e 1 f 2 g 3 h 4

1–11 Open answers 12 Mitch drives a BMW goes to Grand Cayman lawyer makes love on a beach Ray’s brother the new man at the firm wants to be rich


Tarrance agent forty years old from New York Wayne wears a cheap suit

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