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Trivia: The Great Gatsby

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1. Where did Daisy meet Gatsby?
Louisville
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
Tom

2. How are Daisy and Nick related?
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
They are cousins.
He rigged the 1919 World Series
At Nick's house

3. point of view
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
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 Green Light
They are cousins.

4. Who drives the car that kills Myrtle?
Daisy
At Nick's house
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
Weather

5. At the end of the novel - Daisy chooses to be with
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
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.
To impress Daisy.

6. Myrtle Wilson

7. falling action

8. genre
Louisville
Because she taunts him about Daisy
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

9. Nick Carraway

10. Which woman is Tom's extramarital lover?
Myrtle
Geography
Louisville
They are cousins.

11. 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
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
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;
Minnesota

12. Motifs
Geography
Yale
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

13. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?
Tom
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.
The Green Light

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

15. Nick Carraway

16. Where were Nick and Tom educated?
Yale
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
West Egg

17. Why does Tom hit Myrtle at his apartment in New York City?
He rigged the 1919 World Series
Because she taunts him about Daisy
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
Dan Cody

18. author
Geography
Minnesota
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I

19. In what year is The Great Gatsby set?
1922
The Jazz Age
A clock
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

20. Where were Nick and Tom educated?
A clock
To learn about the bond business
Yale
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. Who among the following comes to Gatsby's funeral?

22. Tom Buchanan

23. climax
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
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
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.
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. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?
The Valley of Ashes
To impress Daisy.
The Jazz Age
Yale

25. Klipspringer

26. Where did Gatsby study after the war?
Myrtle
Oxford
At Nick's house
Drain the pool

27. What is Jordan Baker's occupation?
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Golfer
The Green Light
To impress Daisy.

28. Why did Gatsby drop out of college?
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.
Daisy
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Long Island and New York City

29. On the day after the confrontation between Tom and Gatsby in New York City - what does Gatsby instruct his gardener not to do?
The Valley of Ashes
Drain the pool
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
To impress Daisy.

30. time and place written
Long Island and New York City
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
1922

31. George Wilson

32. settings (place)
He rigged the 1919 World Series
Long Island and New York City
F. Scott Fitzgerald
West Egg

33. Why does Nick move to New York?
To learn about the bond business
Daisy
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

34. Symbols
Long Island and New York City
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
At Nick's house
The Green Light

35. author
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
West Egg
Geography

36. What are the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg?
A signboard in the valley of ashes
Daisy
West Egg
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion

37. Symbols
The Valley of Ashes
Myrtle
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Golfer

38. Symbols
A signboard in the valley of ashes
He rigged the 1919 World Series
The Valley of Ashes
America and France

39. Owl Eyes

40. Daisy Buchanan

41. Motifs
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
Geography
A signboard in the valley of ashes
Oxford

42. falling action

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

44. Daisy Buchanan

45. Motifs
A clock
Geography
Weather
F. Scott Fitzgerald

46. Where is the valley of ashes?
Between West Egg and New York City
The Jazz Age
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
Because she taunts him about Daisy

47. Why does Gatsby throw his weekly parties?
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
Tom
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
To impress Daisy.

48. George Wilson

49. time and place written
Myrtle
America and France
Daisy
He rigged the 1919 World Series

50. What is Nick's home state?
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
Daisy
Minnesota
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s