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The Godfather by Mario Puzo (retold by Chris Rice)

Penguin Readers: Level 4

Answer the following questions based on what you know from the book.

Introduction What do we learn about Mario Puzo?

Where from?

Books? Movies?

“I’ll make you an offer

you can’t refuse.”



Chapter 1: Wedding on Long Island (Pp.1-5)

1. Where does the story open?

2. What did they call Don Corleone? Why?

3. How many sons does Done Corleone have? Please name them...

4. Who comes to the wedding with Michael?

5. What do we learn about Luca Brasi?

6. Michael tells his girlfriend the story about how Johnny Fontane became

famous...Please retell the story in your own words...

7. “I’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse.” What does this mean?



8. What request did Don Corleone’s godson make? Why does he need this?

9. Where will Tom go? Why?

Chapter 2: The Greatest Racehorse in the World (Pp.6-9)

1. What is the full name of the Movie director?

2. Why didn’t he want to give Johnny a part in the movie?

3. What happened to make the movie director change his mind?

Chapter 3: Virgil Sollozzo (Pp.9-15)

1. Please describe Virgil Sollozzo...

2. What business did he have with Don Corleone?

15. Why didn’t ‘the Godfather’ want to get involved in Sollozzo’s business?



3. Who was Sollozzo connected with?

4. What job did ‘the Godfather’ give to Luca Brasi?

5. Why didn’t Luca Brasi tell anyone where he was going?

6. How did they kill Luca Brasi?

7. What did Sollozzo call Tom? What does it mean?

8. What happened to Don Corleone?



Chapter 4: Sicilian Message (Pp.15-20) 1. What did Michael tell his family? Why?

2. What did Kay notice in the newspaper shop?

3. Will Kay go with Michael to the hospital?

4. Why wasn’t Paulie there?

5. What happened to Tom Hagen?

6. What are Sicilian women taught?

7. Sonny made three phone calls. Who did he call?

8. What favor did Sonny ask of Farrell?

“He sleeps with

the fishes”



9. What warning did Sonny give Michael?

10. What does Sonny suspect about Paulie and Clemenza? How did Michael

react?

11. What will happen to Paulie tomorrow?

12. What is the Sicilian message? What does it mean?

Chapter 5: Seeds of Revenge (Pp.20-24)

1. How was Michael different since the shooting of his father?

2. What did Michael notice when he arrived at the hospital?

3. What happened to all the guards?



4. Why did they move Michael’s father?

5. Who was the man that came to visit Michael’s father? Please describe...

6. Why did he ask the man to wait outside, at the front of the hospital?

7. What did Michael ask the police captain?

8. How did the captain react?

9. How did Michael feel at the end of the chapter?



Chapter 6: Nothing Personal (Pp.25-31)

1. Who was killed at 4 o’clock in the morning?

2. What does Sollozzo want to do? How?

3. According to Sonny, what must happen to avoid a war?

4. What did Tom have to say about killing Sollozzo while he’s with the captain?

5. What did Michael say he would do?

6. Why couldn’t they believe that he would do it?

7. Where was the meeting being held?



8. What did Sollozzo say to Michael in Italian?

9. What did Michael get from the toilet?

10. How did Michael kill Sollozzo and the captain?

Please list down the main points...

Chapter 7: Apollonia (Pp.31-33)

1. What happened after the shooting of Captain McCluskey?

2. Where was Michael? Who was he staying with?

3. Please describe an average day for Michael...



4. Michael met a girl… What did she look like? Whose daughter is she? What’s

her name?

5. How did the Cafe owner know that Michael was an important man?

6. How did the girl show Michael that she liked him?

7. How was their wedding different from Michael’s sisters wedding in New

York?

Chapter 8: A Bridge Too Far (Pp.34-36)

1. Why weren’t Connie and Carlo Rizzi happily married?

2. What did Sonny do after he saw that his sister had been beaten?

3. What happened to Sonny at the tollbooth between Long Island and the City of

New York?



4. Who told the Don about what happened to Sonny?

5. What was a little strange about the Don’s reaction?

What did he say to his Consigliore?

Chapter 9: A Good American Wife (Pp.36-37)

1. Why did Michael have to spend most of his time in the house?

2. After Sonny’s death, it was no longer safe to stay at Don Tommasino’s house.

Where did he move?

3. Where did Michael want his wife to go?

4. What happened to Apollonia?



Chapter 10: No Revenge (Pp.37-39) 1. Where did the secret meeting between the heads of the five New York

Families take place? Who had invited them all to this meeting?

2. What did Don Corleone say to them?

3. What did Tattaglia say to Barzini? What did he mean?

4. What compromise did the Don have to make?

5. What condition (requirement) did the Don

have for not breaking the peace?

6. How did they end the meeting?

“How did things get so far?”

Don Corleone:

“But I'm a superstitious

man. And if some

unlucky accident should

befall him...if he should

get shot in the head by a

police officer, or if he

should hang himself in

his jail cell, or if he's

struck by a bolt of

lightning, then I'm going

to blame some of the

people in this room. And

that I do not forgive.

But that aside, let me say

that I swear, on the souls

of my grandchildren, that

I will not be the one who

will break the peace we

have made here today.”



Chapter 11: Ghost from the Past (Pp.39-40)

1. Who was the man in the long black coat, watching Kay?

2. How did Kay react to Michael telling her that he was now working for his

father?

3. Why did Michael come to see Kay?

4. What did Kay notice about Michael?

5. Did Kay still love Michael?



Chapter 12: Many Changes (Pp.40-42)

1. What happened to the following people?

(a) Michael and Kay –

(b) Connie and Carlo Rizzi -

(c) Fredo-

(d) Barzini -

2. What did Tessio and Clemenza want to do?

3. Why do you think that Tessio and Clemenza had trouble taking orders from

Michael?

4. “Be careful of Barzini,” said Don Corleone. What will Barzini do?

5. What did Don Corleone confess to his son?



6. How did Don Vito Corleone die?

Don talks about a man who will betray Michael to Barzini.

Who do you think the traitor might be? Why?

Do you think that Kay should have married Michael? Explain...

Do you think that Michael is ready to take over the family business,

now that his father has died?



Chapter 13: Traitor (Pp.43-44)

1. Who was at the funeral?

2. Who approached Michael with Barzini’s message?

3. What did Michael remember his father saying?

4. What will Michael do before he meets Barzini and the heads of the five

families?

5. What had Michael decided?

“Don’t ask me about

my business !”



Chapter 14: Michael Rizzi, Go in peace (Pp.44-48) 1. Please describe what the following people were doing throughout the chapter

(Preparation/Murders)...

a. Pete Clemenza -

b. Albert Neri -

c. Rocco Lampone -

2. What are the answers to the following questions?

(a) Do you believe in God the Father, the Maker of Heaven and Earth? Do

you believe in Jesus Christ?

(b) Do you refuse Satan, and everything that Satan does?



3. How did Tattaglia die?

4. At the end of the Baptism, what did Michael know?

Chapter 15: Family Business (Pp.48-53) 1. How did Carlo react to what Michael said? Why?

2. What did Tessio understand when Tom said that he couldn’t go with him?

What happened to him?

3. How did Michael get Carlo to confess?

4. Who killed Sonny?

5. How did Carlo Rizzi die? Who killed him?

Tessio: Tom, can you

get me off the hook? For

old times sake?

Tom: Can't do it, Sally



6. Who were now the strongest family in New York? Why?

7. How did Connie react to the death of her husband? What did she say to

Michael? How did she feel towards him?

8. What answer did Michael give Kay to the question about family business?

Why do you think he said this?

Michael lies to Carlo and Kay in these chapters. Which do you think is the worst lie?

Why? What do these lies show about Michael’s character?

What does Kay see at the end of the story?

What does she understand from this? What do you think her marriage will be like from now?

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