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Trivia: The Great Gatsby

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1. 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.
To impress Daisy.
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners

2. falling action

3. What is Nick's home state?
A signboard in the valley of ashes
Weather
Minnesota
Geography

4. Symbols
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
Drain the pool
Protagonist of the novel - Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Famous for the lavish parties
To impress Daisy.

5. Symbols
The Green Light
Geography
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 Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s

6. What is Jordan Baker's occupation?
America and France
Golfer
Yale
Geography

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

8. Themes
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
Gatsby's father
Oxford
Long Island and New York City

9. Who drives the car that kills Myrtle?
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
Daisy
Between West Egg and New York City
Minnesota

10. Themes
1922
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.
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s

11. Motifs
Weather
A signboard in the valley of ashes
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
Drain the pool

12. Which millionaire hired the young Gatsby as an assistant?
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.
Long Island and New York City
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
Dan Cody

13. Where does Gatsby recognize Nick from?
Daisy
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
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.
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.

14. Where did Daisy meet Gatsby?
Louisville
At Nick's house
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
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

15. Klipspringer

16. tone

17. Daisy Buchanan

18. Which millionaire hired the young Gatsby as an assistant?
To impress Daisy.
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.
Dan Cody
A signboard in the valley of ashes

19. Tom Buchanan

20. In what year is The Great Gatsby set?
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
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
1922
Minnesota

21. Where did Gatsby study after the war?
Oxford
Drain the pool
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

22. In what year is The Great Gatsby set?
At Nick's house
Dan Cody
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.
1922

23. When he renews his acquaintance with Daisy at Nick's house - what does Gatsby knock off of the mantle?
A clock
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 Green Light
Oxford

24. When he renews his acquaintance with Daisy at Nick's house - what does Gatsby knock off of the mantle?
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 Jazz Age
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

25. What is Nick's home state?
Drain the pool
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.
Minnesota
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.

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

27. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?
The Jazz Age
Weather
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
To impress Daisy.

28. Where is the valley of ashes?
Long Island and New York City
Daisy
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
Between West Egg and New York City

29. How are Daisy and Nick related?
Minnesota
America and France
They are cousins.
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I

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

31. Which woman is Tom's extramarital lover?
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
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
Myrtle
At Nick's house

32. point of view
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
Gatsby's father
The Valley of Ashes

33. Nick Carraway

34. Where is the valley of ashes?
The Jazz Age
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
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
Between West Egg and New York City

35. Where were Nick and Tom educated?
The Green Light
Yale
Tom
They are cousins.

36. Nick Carraway

37. Where is Gatsby's mansion located?
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion
West Egg
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
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

38. Myrtle Wilson

39. rising action

40. time and place written
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.
America and France
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.
Yale

41. How are Daisy and Nick related?
Because she taunts him about Daisy
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
They are cousins.
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's

42. author
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
To impress Daisy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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

43. Symbols
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
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
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 Green Light

44. Why did Gatsby drop out of college?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
To impress Daisy.
They are cousins.
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.

45. Why does Tom hit Myrtle at his apartment in New York City?
Dan Cody
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.
Long Island and New York City
Because she taunts him about Daisy

46. climax
America and France
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.
Because she taunts him about Daisy
To impress Daisy.

47. Jay Gatsby
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
They are cousins.
Dan Cody

48. 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
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 Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg

49. genre
Dan Cody
Gatsby's father
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners

50. George Wilson