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Trivia: The Great Gatsby

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1. How are Daisy and Nick related?
He rigged the 1919 World Series
They are cousins.
Drain the pool
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

2. rising action

3. Where is Gatsby's mansion located?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
West Egg
Drain the pool
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners

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

5. What is Meyer Wolfshiem's claim to fame?
Myrtle
He rigged the 1919 World Series
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

6. Symbols
Louisville
A signboard in the valley of ashes
The Valley of Ashes
Myrtle

7. Which millionaire hired the young Gatsby as an assistant?
Dan Cody
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
West Egg
Weather

8. Where did Gatsby study after the war?
Oxford
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.
Between West Egg and New York City

9. Symbols
The Green Light
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
America and France

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

11. Owl Eyes

12. Themes
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
The Green Light
F. Scott Fitzgerald

13. 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
Oxford
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
Drain the pool

14. Why does Gatsby throw his weekly parties?
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
Myrtle
To impress Daisy.
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.

15. Jordan Baker

16. Which woman is Tom's extramarital lover?
They are cousins.
Long Island and New York City
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;
Myrtle

17. Motifs
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
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.
Geography
America and France

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

19. On the day after the confrontation between Tom and Gatsby in New York City - what does Gatsby instruct his gardener not to do?
Drain the pool
Gatsby's father
Dan Cody
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.

20. major conflict
The Green Light
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
At Nick's house
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

21. genre
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 Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
Louisville

22. Owl Eyes

23. Symbols
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
Geography
The Green Light
West Egg

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

25. author
Long Island and New York City
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Jazz Age
Because she taunts him about Daisy

26. What are the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg?
Gatsby's father
A signboard in the valley of ashes
The Jazz Age
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's

27. When he renews his acquaintance with Daisy at Nick's house - what does Gatsby knock off of the mantle?
At Nick's house
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
He rigged the 1919 World Series
A clock

28. rising action

29. In what year is The Great Gatsby set?
Yale
Geography
1922
At Nick's house

30. Why did Gatsby drop out of college?
The Green Light
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
At Nick's house
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.

31. tone

32. falling action

33. Why does Tom hit Myrtle at his apartment in New York City?
Because she taunts him about Daisy
He rigged the 1919 World Series
To learn about the bond business
Minnesota

34. climax
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.
Weather
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I

35. Klipspringer

36. settings (place)
The Jazz Age
They are cousins.
Long Island and New York City
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners

37. Motifs
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
A signboard in the valley of ashes
Weather

38. Motifs
Gatsby's father
Weather
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
Dan Cody

39. Why does Tom hit Myrtle at his apartment in New York City?
Because she taunts him about Daisy
To impress Daisy.
Minnesota
1922

40. George Wilson

41. Symbols
Gatsby's father
They are cousins.
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
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.

42. 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
He rigged the 1919 World Series
The Valley of Ashes
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;

43. Where did Daisy meet Gatsby?
America and France
Louisville
Drain the pool
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s

44. Nick Carraway

45. Jordan Baker

46. Where does Gatsby recognize Nick from?
Dan Cody
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
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 and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I

47. How are Daisy and Nick related?
They are cousins.
Daisy
Weather
West Egg

48. Myrtle Wilson

49. Where did Daisy meet Gatsby?
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Oxford
Louisville

50. falling action