Trivia: The Great Gatsby

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1. Tom Buchanan

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2. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?
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;
The Jazz Age
Tom
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;


3. falling action

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4. Jay Gatsby
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 learn about the bond business
Yale
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


5. What is Jordan Baker's occupation?
Golfer
Tom
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 Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg


6. Motifs
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
Geography
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
Louisville


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

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8. Owl Eyes

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9. Who drives the car that kills Myrtle?
Daisy
Geography
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.
A signboard in the valley of ashes


10. How are Daisy and Nick related?
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
Minnesota
They are cousins.
At Nick's house


11. Jordan Baker

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12. Why does Gatsby throw his weekly parties?
The Jazz Age
Drain the pool
To impress Daisy.
West Egg


13. Myrtle Wilson

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14. Where were Nick and Tom educated?
To impress 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
Yale
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;


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

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16. Why does Nick move to New York?
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;
America and France
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.


17. Who drives the car that kills Myrtle?
To learn about the bond business
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;
The Jazz Age
Daisy


18. Where did Gatsby study after the war?
Oxford
Between West Egg and New York City
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Geography


19. Nick Carraway

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20. Motifs
Geography
Daisy
Louisville
The Valley of Ashes


21. Owl Eyes

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22. Why does Tom hit Myrtle at his apartment in New York City?
Because she taunts him about Daisy
The Green Light
Long Island and New York City
1922


23. Themes
America and France
Tom
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
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.


24. settings (place)
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
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
Long Island and New York City


25. What is Meyer Wolfshiem's claim to fame?
Protagonist of the novel - Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Famous for the lavish parties
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 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
He rigged the 1919 World Series


26. climax
Drain the pool
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;
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.
Drain the pool


27. 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
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
To learn about the bond business
Drain the pool


28. settings (place)
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
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
Long Island and New York City
Golfer


29. Which woman is Tom's extramarital lover?
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.
A signboard in the valley of ashes
Myrtle
America and France


30. What are the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg?
A signboard in the valley of ashes
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
Because she taunts him about Daisy
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion


31. George Wilson

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32. Symbols
At Nick's house
Because she taunts him about Daisy
The Green Light
America and France


33. Symbols
Gatsby's father
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
Oxford
The Jazz Age


34. Where did Daisy meet Gatsby?
Louisville
Because she taunts him about Daisy
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 Jazz Age


35. Symbols
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.
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
The Valley of Ashes
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners


36. author
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 rigged the 1919 World Series
F. Scott Fitzgerald
America and France


37. time and place written
Louisville
Geography
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
America and France


38. Why did Gatsby drop out of college?
They are cousins.
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.


39. major conflict
Oxford
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
Weather
They are cousins.


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

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41. Nick Carraway

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42. George Wilson

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


44. rising action

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45. What is Nick's home state?
West Egg
Minnesota
At Nick's house
Daisy


46. In what year is The Great Gatsby set?
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
Weather
1922
Myrtle


47. Motifs
Geography
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
Weather
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg


48. Why does Gatsby throw his weekly parties?
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
To impress Daisy.
Golfer
Dan Cody


49. Where does Gatsby recognize Nick from?
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
He rigged the 1919 World Series
A clock
Protagonist of the novel - Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Famous for the lavish parties


50. What are the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg?
The Valley of Ashes
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
A signboard in the valley of ashes
Gatsby's father