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Trivia: The Great Gatsby

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1. falling action

2. Daisy Buchanan

3. What are the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg?
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
A signboard in the valley of ashes
America and France

4. How are Daisy and Nick related?
Gatsby's father
He rigged the 1919 World Series
They are cousins.
Dan Cody

5. On the day after the confrontation between Tom and Gatsby in New York City - what does Gatsby instruct his gardener not to do?
Tom
Because she taunts him about Daisy
Drain the pool
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.

6. When he renews his acquaintance with Daisy at Nick's house - what does Gatsby knock off of the mantle?
A clock
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
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

7. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?
Golfer
The Jazz Age
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
Yale

8. major conflict
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.
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
Gatsby's father
Protagonist of the novel - Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Famous for the lavish parties

9. Where does Gatsby recognize Nick from?
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
Daisy
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
Louisville

10. Klipspringer

11. Jordan Baker

12. Symbols
Myrtle
America and France
The Green Light
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

13. falling action

14. point of view
West Egg
The Valley of Ashes
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
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

15. Themes
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
To learn about the bond business
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
Louisville

16. Who drives the car that kills Myrtle?
Geography
Daisy
Weather
Oxford

17. Motifs
A signboard in the valley of ashes
Geography
Oxford
To learn about the bond business

18. Where were Nick and Tom educated?
Yale
Gatsby's father
A clock
Long Island and New York City

19. Symbols
He rigged the 1919 World Series
Louisville
West Egg
The Valley of Ashes

20. Why does Nick move to New York?
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
A clock
To learn about the bond business
A signboard in the valley of ashes

21. Which millionaire hired the young Gatsby as an assistant?
Minnesota
Dan Cody
West Egg
Gatsby's father

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

23. Symbols
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 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
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.

24. When he renews his acquaintance with Daisy at Nick's house - what does Gatsby knock off of the mantle?
A clock
Drain the pool
At Nick's house
America and France

25. Jordan Baker

26. Why does Nick move to New York?
They are cousins.
Louisville
To learn about the bond business
1922

27. Tom Buchanan

28. climax
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
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion
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.
To learn about the bond business

29. settings (place)
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.
Drain the pool
Long Island and New York City
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

30. Why does Gatsby throw his weekly parties?
To impress Daisy.
The Jazz Age
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
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

31. In what year is The Great Gatsby set?
1922
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
Golfer
Louisville

32. Where did Gatsby study after the war?
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
Oxford
Louisville
Protagonist of the novel - Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Famous for the lavish parties

33. Why does Tom hit Myrtle at his apartment in 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
Because she taunts him about Daisy
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
A clock

34. 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
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
To impress Daisy.

35. tone

36. Tom Buchanan

37. Myrtle Wilson

38. Motifs
Geography
Myrtle
To impress Daisy.
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners

39. What are the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg?
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Because she taunts him about 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.
A signboard in the valley of ashes

40. 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
Weather
Louisville
To impress Daisy.

41. Where is the valley of ashes?
Between West Egg and New York City
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Gatsby's father
America and France

42. genre
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
Drain the pool
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
They are cousins.

43. How are Daisy and Nick related?
They are cousins.
Louisville
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
America and France

44. author
To learn about the bond business
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion
F. Scott Fitzgerald
They are cousins.

45. Which millionaire hired the young Gatsby as an assistant?
To learn about the bond business
Dan Cody
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
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion

46. Motifs
Louisville
Weather
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
Tom

47. Symbols
A signboard in the valley of ashes
Drain the pool
Drain the pool
The Green Light

48. 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.
Between West Egg and New York City
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

49. Symbols
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
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s

50. Myrtle Wilson