Trivia: The Great Gatsby

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1. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
The Jazz Age
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
The novel's narrator. Honest - tolerant - and inclined to reserve judgment - Nick often serves as a confidant for those with troubling secrets. The Great Gatsby is told entirely through Nick's eyes;


2. What is Nick's home state?
They are cousins.
Minnesota
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
Nick's attitudes toward Gatsby and Gatsby's story are ambivalent and contradictory.At times he seems to disapprove of Gatsby's excesses and breaches of manners and ethics - but he also romanticizes and admires Gatsby - describing the events of the no


3. Where were Nick and Tom educated?
Yale
Golfer
The Green Light
F. Scott Fitzgerald


4. Daisy Buchanan

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5. Why does Nick move to New York?
Minnesota
The Valley of Ashes
West Egg
To learn about the bond business


6. point of view
Because she taunts him about Daisy
Nick Carraway narrates in both first and third person - presenting only what he himself observes. Nick alternates sections where he presents events objectively - as they appeared to him at the time - with sections where he gives his own interpretatio
Minnesota
Geography


7. time and place written
Long Island and New York City
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
America and France
They are cousins.


8. Why does Tom hit Myrtle at his apartment in New York City?
Between West Egg and New York City
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
They are cousins.
Because she taunts him about Daisy


9. author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tom's lover - whose lifeless husband George owns a run-down garage in the valley of ashes. Myrtle herself possesses a fierce vitality and desperately looks for a way to improve her situation.
Long Island and New York City
A clock


10. Who among the following comes to Gatsby's funeral?

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11. Who drives the car that kills Myrtle?
Daisy's friend - a woman with whom Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel. A competitive golfer - Jordan represents one of the 'new women' of the 1920s—cynical - boyish - and self-centered. Jordan is beautiful - but also di
Daisy
At Nick's house
The shallow freeloader who seems almost to live at Gatsby's mansion - taking advantage of his host's money. As soon as Gatsby dies - Klipspringer disappears—he does not attend the funeral - but he does call Nick about a pair of tennis shoes that he l


12. Themes
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
1922
To impress Daisy.
Drain the pool


13. Jay Gatsby
1922
Protagonist of the novel - Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Famous for the lavish parties
Minnesota
The novel's narrator. Honest - tolerant - and inclined to reserve judgment - Nick often serves as a confidant for those with troubling secrets. The Great Gatsby is told entirely through Nick's eyes;


14. Symbols
To impress Daisy.
Long Island and New York City
Tom's lover - whose lifeless husband George owns a run-down garage in the valley of ashes. Myrtle herself possesses a fierce vitality and desperately looks for a way to improve her situation.
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg


15. In what year is The Great Gatsby set?
Dan Cody
Nick's attitudes toward Gatsby and Gatsby's story are ambivalent and contradictory.At times he seems to disapprove of Gatsby's excesses and breaches of manners and ethics - but he also romanticizes and admires Gatsby - describing the events of the no
1922
A signboard in the valley of ashes


16. climax
West Egg
There are two possible climaxes: Gatsby's reunion with Daisy in Chapters 5-6; the confrontation between Gatsby and Tom in the Plaza Hotel in Chapter 7.
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion
The Valley of Ashes


17. tone

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18. Where did Daisy meet Gatsby?
Dan Cody
Between West Egg and New York City
Louisville
Weather


19. Myrtle Wilson

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20. rising action

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21. falling action

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22. Symbols
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
Nick Carraway narrates in both first and third person - presenting only what he himself observes. Nick alternates sections where he presents events objectively - as they appeared to him at the time - with sections where he gives his own interpretatio
The Valley of Ashes
The Jazz Age


23. Owl Eyes

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24. What is Meyer Wolfshiem's claim to fame?
West Egg
Between West Egg and New York City
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
He rigged the 1919 World Series


25. Where does Gatsby's reunion with Daisy take place?

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26. climax
Myrtle's husband - the lifeless - exhausted owner of a run-down auto shop at the edge of the valley of ashes. George loves and idealizes Myrtle - and is devastated by her affair with Tom.
Nick Carraway narrates in both first and third person - presenting only what he himself observes. Nick alternates sections where he presents events objectively - as they appeared to him at the time - with sections where he gives his own interpretatio
There are two possible climaxes: Gatsby's reunion with Daisy in Chapters 5-6; the confrontation between Gatsby and Tom in the Plaza Hotel in Chapter 7.
A clock


27. Where is Gatsby's mansion located?
Long Island and New York City
Dan Cody
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
West Egg


28. Which woman is Tom's extramarital lover?
Myrtle
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.
Golfer
The shallow freeloader who seems almost to live at Gatsby's mansion - taking advantage of his host's money. As soon as Gatsby dies - Klipspringer disappears—he does not attend the funeral - but he does call Nick about a pair of tennis shoes that he l


29. On the day after the confrontation between Tom and Gatsby in New York City - what does Gatsby instruct his gardener not to do?
Daisy's immensely wealthy husband - once a member of Nick's social club at Yale. Powerfully built and hailing from a socially solid old family - Tom is an arrogant - hypocritical bully. His social attitudes are laced with racism and sexism - and he n
Drain the pool
Because she taunts him about Daisy
There are two possible climaxes: Gatsby's reunion with Daisy in Chapters 5-6; the confrontation between Gatsby and Tom in the Plaza Hotel in Chapter 7.


30. rising action

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31. Jay Gatsby
Drain the pool
Minnesota
A signboard in the valley of ashes
Protagonist of the novel - Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Famous for the lavish parties


32. genre
Daisy's friend - a woman with whom Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel. A competitive golfer - Jordan represents one of the 'new women' of the 1920s—cynical - boyish - and self-centered. Jordan is beautiful - but also di
The novel's narrator. Honest - tolerant - and inclined to reserve judgment - Nick often serves as a confidant for those with troubling secrets. The Great Gatsby is told entirely through Nick's eyes;
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners


33. author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Long Island and New York City
To learn about the bond business
Myrtle's husband - the lifeless - exhausted owner of a run-down auto shop at the edge of the valley of ashes. George loves and idealizes Myrtle - and is devastated by her affair with Tom.


34. Motifs
The Valley of Ashes
Weather
Tom
A clock


35. Motifs
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Long Island and New York City
Geography
Oxford


36. Who among the following comes to Gatsby's funeral?

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37. When he renews his acquaintance with Daisy at Nick's house - what does Gatsby knock off of the mantle?
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.
There are two possible climaxes: Gatsby's reunion with Daisy in Chapters 5-6; the confrontation between Gatsby and Tom in the Plaza Hotel in Chapter 7.
Nick Carraway narrates in both first and third person - presenting only what he himself observes. Nick alternates sections where he presents events objectively - as they appeared to him at the time - with sections where he gives his own interpretatio
A clock


38. settings (place)
Minnesota
A signboard in the valley of ashes
Long Island and New York City
Gatsby has amassed a vast fortune in order to win the affections of the upper-class Daisy Buchanan - but his mysterious past stands in the way of his being accepted by her


39. Why does Tom hit Myrtle at his apartment in New York City?
Because she taunts him about Daisy
Myrtle
Gatsby has amassed a vast fortune in order to win the affections of the upper-class Daisy Buchanan - but his mysterious past stands in the way of his being accepted by her
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg


40. Where is the valley of ashes?
Between West Egg and New York City
The Green Light
A clock
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's


41. Which woman is Tom's extramarital lover?
Nick Carraway narrates in both first and third person - presenting only what he himself observes. Nick alternates sections where he presents events objectively - as they appeared to him at the time - with sections where he gives his own interpretatio
Myrtle
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners


42. genre
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
Myrtle
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners


43. On the day after the confrontation between Tom and Gatsby in New York City - what does Gatsby instruct his gardener not to do?
The Green Light
Drain the pool
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
Daisy


44. In what year is The Great Gatsby set?
A signboard in the valley of ashes
Daisy's friend - a woman with whom Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel. A competitive golfer - Jordan represents one of the 'new women' of the 1920s—cynical - boyish - and self-centered. Jordan is beautiful - but also di
1922
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg


45. Klipspringer

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46. What is Meyer Wolfshiem's claim to fame?
He rigged the 1919 World Series
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
Louisville
1922


47. point of view
Nick Carraway narrates in both first and third person - presenting only what he himself observes. Nick alternates sections where he presents events objectively - as they appeared to him at the time - with sections where he gives his own interpretatio
A clock
Gatsby has amassed a vast fortune in order to win the affections of the upper-class Daisy Buchanan - but his mysterious past stands in the way of his being accepted by her
To learn about the bond business


48. Where were Nick and Tom educated?
Yale
Between West Egg and New York City
Because she taunts him about Daisy
Daisy's immensely wealthy husband - once a member of Nick's social club at Yale. Powerfully built and hailing from a socially solid old family - Tom is an arrogant - hypocritical bully. His social attitudes are laced with racism and sexism - and he n


49. Jordan Baker

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50. What is Nick's home state?
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Minnesota
The Valley of Ashes
Long Island and New York City