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Trivia: The Great Gatsby

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1. George Wilson

2. author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A clock
At Nick's house
Protagonist of the novel - Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Famous for the lavish parties

3. Motifs
Oxford
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Weather
At Nick's house

4. climax
Drain the pool
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.
Weather

5. What is Nick's home state?
Because she taunts him about Daisy
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
A clock
Minnesota

6. genre
The Jazz Age
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
Oxford

7. Where is the valley of ashes?
The Green Light
Between West Egg and New York City
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.

8. major conflict
To impress 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
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
Minnesota

9. In what year is The Great Gatsby set?
Dan Cody
1922
The Green Light
Between West Egg and New York City

10. Symbols
To learn about the bond business
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
They are cousins.
The Valley of Ashes

11. major conflict
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
Oxford
To impress Daisy.
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

12. Klipspringer

13. Why does Tom hit Myrtle at his apartment in New York City?
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.
1922
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.

14. 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
At Nick's house
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.
To learn about the bond business

15. author
America and France
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A clock
At Nick's house

16. What are the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg?
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
He rigged the 1919 World Series
A signboard in the valley of ashes
He rigged the 1919 World Series

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

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

19. 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;
They are cousins.
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

20. Why does Gatsby throw his weekly parties?
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
1922
To impress Daisy.

21. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
Oxford
A signboard in the valley of ashes
The Jazz Age

22. When he renews his acquaintance with Daisy at Nick's house - what does Gatsby knock off of the mantle?
A clock
Daisy
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion
The Valley of Ashes

23. Where is Gatsby's mansion located?
Dan Cody
At Nick's house
West Egg
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s

24. Where is Gatsby's mansion located?
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
Gatsby's father
Between West Egg and New York City

25. 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.
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.
A clock
Minnesota

26. Where were Nick and Tom educated?
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.
Minnesota
Yale
Geography

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

28. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?
Golfer
The Jazz Age
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.
Gatsby's father

29. What is Jordan Baker's occupation?
He rigged the 1919 World Series
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
Golfer
Daisy

30. 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
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
They are cousins.
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's

31. point of view
Drain the pool
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
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.

32. Where did Gatsby study after the war?
Oxford
Myrtle
Dan Cody
Louisville

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

34. What is Meyer Wolfshiem's claim to fame?
He rigged the 1919 World Series
The Valley of Ashes
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

35. Where were Nick and Tom educated?
Dan Cody
Because she taunts him about 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
Yale

36. Myrtle Wilson

37. Symbols
Weather
Minnesota
The Green Light
To learn about the bond business

38. time and place written
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.
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
Tom

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

40. Tom Buchanan

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

42. What is Nick's home state?
Yale
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Minnesota
He rigged the 1919 World Series

43. Who drives the car that kills Myrtle?
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
A clock
Daisy

44. Symbols
The Valley of Ashes
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.
Golfer

45. Tom Buchanan

46. genre
Between West Egg and New York City
Myrtle
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
The Valley of Ashes

47. Which woman is Tom's extramarital lover?
Myrtle
A signboard in the valley of ashes
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

48. Symbols
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
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
Because she taunts him about Daisy

49. settings (place)
He rigged the 1919 World Series
A signboard in the valley of ashes
Long Island and New York City
The Valley of Ashes

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
Myrtle
Louisville
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg