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Trivia: The Great Gatsby

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1. How are Daisy and Nick related?
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
Long Island and New York City
Geography
They are cousins.

2. 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.
Geography
To impress Daisy.

3. settings (place)
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;
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
They are cousins.

4. In what year is The Great Gatsby set?
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.
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
1922
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners

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

6. How are Daisy and Nick related?
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
They are cousins.
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
Gatsby's father

7. genre
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.
Protagonist of the novel - Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Famous for the lavish parties
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
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.

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

9. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?
Oxford
Tom
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.
The Jazz Age

10. Symbols
The Valley of Ashes
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.
Myrtle
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.

11. Motifs
Weather
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
Myrtle
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

12. climax
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
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.
Geography

13. rising action

14. Where is Gatsby's mansion located?
A signboard in the valley of ashes
Minnesota
West Egg
America and France

15. Who drives the car that kills Myrtle?
Geography
Geography
To learn about the bond business
Daisy

16. Symbols
The Green Light
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
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 Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg

17. tone

18. On the day after the confrontation between Tom and Gatsby in New York City - what does Gatsby instruct his gardener not to do?
Geography
Drain the pool
Weather
Minnesota

19. George Wilson

20. point of view
Because she taunts him about Daisy
Protagonist of the novel - Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Famous for the lavish parties
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
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

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

22. Jordan Baker

23. Klipspringer

24. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?
America and France
He rigged the 1919 World Series
The Jazz Age
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;

25. Tom Buchanan

26. Where does Gatsby recognize Nick from?
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
Weather
A signboard in the valley of ashes

27. What is Jordan Baker's occupation?
West Egg
Tom
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
Golfer

28. Themes
At Nick's house
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
The Valley of Ashes
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

29. Symbols
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion
Oxford
The Green Light
Golfer

30. author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
Tom
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

31. At the end of the novel - Daisy chooses to be with
Tom
Geography
Gatsby's father
They are cousins.

32. Symbols
At Nick's house
Long Island and New York City
The Valley of Ashes
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.

33. falling action

34. major conflict
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
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
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

35. What is Meyer Wolfshiem's claim to fame?
Louisville
America and France
Because she taunts him about Daisy
He rigged the 1919 World Series

36. Motifs
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
Weather
They are cousins.
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

37. Where did Daisy meet Gatsby?
Oxford
1922
Louisville
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg

38. Myrtle Wilson

39. time and place written
Golfer
America and France
Protagonist of the novel - Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Famous for the lavish parties
Tom

40. Daisy Buchanan

41. Where is Gatsby's mansion located?
1922
West Egg
The Valley of Ashes
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder

42. Symbols
The Green Light
The Valley of Ashes
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
Tom

43. Nick Carraway

44. major conflict
The Green Light
Between West Egg and New York City
The Green Light
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

45. time and place written
Oxford
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
The Jazz Age
America and France

46. Klipspringer

47. Who drives the car that kills Myrtle?
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
West Egg
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.

48. Why did Gatsby drop out of college?
America and France
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
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
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

49. Jay Gatsby
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.
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;
Protagonist of the novel - Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Famous for the lavish parties
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

50. At the end of the novel - Daisy chooses to be with
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion
Louisville
Tom
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I