Trivia: The Great Gatsby

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1. Which woman is Tom's extramarital lover?
Drain the pool
Geography
Myrtle
Gatsby's father


2. Myrtle Wilson

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3. Themes
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
West Egg
America and France
Gatsby's father


4. author
Golfer
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion


5. author
Tom
Minnesota
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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.


6. Who drives the car that kills Myrtle?
To learn about the bond business
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.
Because she taunts him about Daisy


7. Myrtle Wilson

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8. Where does Gatsby recognize Nick from?
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Dan Cody
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
The Green Light


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

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10. genre
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
F. Scott Fitzgerald
He rigged the 1919 World Series
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


11. What is Nick's home state?
Golfer
Minnesota
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


12. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?
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
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
1922


13. Why did Gatsby drop out of college?
Yale
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
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


14. In what year is The Great Gatsby set?
1922
Golfer
Drain the pool
He rigged the 1919 World Series


15. Why does Nick move to New York?
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
To learn about the bond business
Geography
Between West Egg and New York City


16. Which millionaire hired the young Gatsby as an assistant?
Dan Cody
To impress Daisy.
Protagonist of the novel - Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Famous for the lavish parties
Long Island and New York City


17. Which millionaire hired the young Gatsby as an assistant?
They are cousins.
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;
Dan Cody
Protagonist of the novel - Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Famous for the lavish parties


18. rising action

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19. Why does Tom hit Myrtle at his apartment in New York City?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Because she taunts him about Daisy
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


20. George Wilson

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21. How are Daisy and Nick related?
Oxford
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
They are cousins.
Because she taunts him about Daisy


22. major conflict
Dan Cody
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
They are cousins.


23. Why does Tom hit Myrtle at his apartment in New York City?
Because she taunts him about Daisy
Daisy
Gatsby's father
A signboard in the valley of ashes


24. Tom Buchanan

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

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26. What is Jordan Baker's occupation?
Golfer
Minnesota
Long Island and New York City
West Egg


27. Klipspringer

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28. Jordan Baker

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29. When he renews his acquaintance with Daisy at Nick's house - what does Gatsby knock off of the mantle?
Because she taunts him about Daisy
Myrtle
A clock
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg


30. Klipspringer

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31. Themes
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
The Jazz Age
The Green Light
West Egg


32. Who drives the car that kills Myrtle?
Tom
The Jazz Age
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


33. 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
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
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
Drain the pool


34. 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.
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 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


35. 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
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.
West Egg


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

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37. George Wilson

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38. Why does Nick move to New York?
To learn about the bond business
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
They are cousins.
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


39. genre
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
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;
Tom
The Jazz Age


40. Jordan Baker

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41. At the end of the novel - Daisy chooses to be with
To learn about the bond business
The Jazz Age
Tom
Yale


42. Motifs
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
Geography
He rigged the 1919 World Series
To impress Daisy.


43. What is Meyer Wolfshiem's claim to fame?
He rigged the 1919 World Series
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
Golfer
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;


44. Motifs
Between West Egg and New York City
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
Weather
Daisy


45. Nick Carraway

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46. tone

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47. Symbols
The Valley of Ashes
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion
West Egg
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.


48. Where did Gatsby study after the war?
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
Weather
Drain the pool
Oxford


49. Nick Carraway

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50. Where were Nick and Tom educated?
Drain the pool
The Jazz Age
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion
Yale