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Trivia: The Great Gatsby

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1. Jordan Baker

2. time and place written
To learn about the bond business
Tom
Between West Egg and New York City
America and France

3. When he renews his acquaintance with Daisy at Nick's house - what does Gatsby knock off of the mantle?
Myrtle
He rigged the 1919 World Series
Tom
A clock

4. Where is Gatsby's mansion located?
Drain the pool
West Egg
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
A clock

5. falling action

6. At the end of the novel - Daisy chooses to be with
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 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's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.
Tom

7. Motifs
The Valley of Ashes
He rigged the 1919 World Series
To impress Daisy.
Weather

8. tone

9. Motifs
Between West Egg and New York City
1922
Weather
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.

10. Daisy Buchanan

11. point of view
Daisy
To learn about the bond business
America and France
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

12. author
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
Golfer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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;

13. Where did Gatsby study after the war?
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
Oxford
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

14. Which millionaire hired the young Gatsby as an assistant?
Protagonist of the novel - Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Famous for the lavish parties
The Jazz Age
A clock
Dan Cody

15. Where is the valley of ashes?
West Egg
America and France
America and France
Between West Egg and New York City

16. rising action

17. Why does Tom hit Myrtle at his apartment in New York City?
Because she taunts him about Daisy
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Geography
Yale

18. Why did Gatsby drop out of college?
Oxford
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Dan Cody
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

19. falling action

20. At the end of the novel - Daisy chooses to be with
A clock
The Green Light
Tom
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

21. Symbols
Long Island and New York City
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
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
West Egg

22. Symbols
Because she taunts him about Daisy
Dan Cody
The Green Light
The Valley of Ashes

23. Where is the valley of ashes?
Long Island and New York City
Weather
Golfer
Between West Egg and New York City

24. Why does Gatsby throw his weekly parties?
To impress Daisy.
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.
Tom
Minnesota

25. Tom Buchanan

26. author
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
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
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

27. Jay Gatsby
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
Myrtle
Protagonist of the novel - Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Famous for the lavish parties

28. Why does Gatsby throw his weekly parties?
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.
1922
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion

29. Why did Gatsby drop out of college?
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
A clock
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

30. Klipspringer

31. point of view
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.
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
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.

32. What are the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg?
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
A signboard in the valley of ashes
The Green Light

33. climax
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.
Between West Egg and New York City
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
Because she taunts him about Daisy

34. rising action

35. Why does Nick move to New York?
Gatsby's father
To learn about the bond business
He rigged the 1919 World Series
Golfer

36. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
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 Valley of Ashes
The Jazz Age

37. Where were Nick and Tom educated?
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
A signboard in the valley of ashes
Yale
Golfer

38. Owl Eyes

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

40. Symbols
Oxford
The Valley of Ashes
Because she taunts him about Daisy
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion

41. When he renews his acquaintance with Daisy at Nick's house - what does Gatsby knock off of the mantle?
Between West Egg and New York City
A clock
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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

42. What are the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg?
Minnesota
Weather
A signboard in the valley of ashes
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. What is Jordan Baker's occupation?
Gatsby's father
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
F. Scott Fitzgerald

44. Tom Buchanan

45. Symbols
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;
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
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

46. Who drives the car that kills Myrtle?
Tom
Daisy
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
Because she taunts him about Daisy

47. major conflict
1922
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
Gatsby's father
Between West Egg and New York City

48. settings (place)
They are cousins.
Long Island and New York City
The Green Light
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

49. time and place written
A clock
Geography
America and France
Minnesota

50. Symbols
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
A clock
To impress Daisy.
The Green Light