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Trivia: The Great Gatsby

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1. Tom Buchanan

2. Why does Nick move to New York?
He rigged the 1919 World Series
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.
Louisville
To learn about the bond business

3. tone

4. Who drives the car that kills Myrtle?
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
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.
To impress Daisy.

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

6. Why does Nick move to New York?
Drain the pool
Long Island and New York City
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
To learn about the bond business

7. Symbols
Louisville
The Green Light
Geography
Between West Egg and New York City

8. falling action

9. Why does Gatsby throw his weekly parties?
To impress 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.
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 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;

10. 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;
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.
Gatsby's father

11. What is Jordan Baker's occupation?
Golfer
He rigged the 1919 World Series
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.
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

12. point of view
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;
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 Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.

13. Owl Eyes

14. Symbols
The Valley of Ashes
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
1922
To learn about the bond business

15. Why did Gatsby drop out of college?
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
Long Island and New York City
The Valley of Ashes
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.

16. tone

17. author
He rigged the 1919 World Series
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1922

18. Where did Daisy meet Gatsby?
Louisville
America and France
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

19. Why does Tom hit Myrtle at his apartment in New York City?
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.
West Egg
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.
Because she taunts him about Daisy

20. Symbols
The Valley of Ashes
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
A signboard in the valley of ashes
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.

21. Themes
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
Dan Cody
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s

22. climax
Weather
Drain the pool
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 Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s

23. Klipspringer

24. Myrtle Wilson

25. Where did Gatsby study after the war?
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Drain the pool
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
Oxford

26. Themes
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
To impress Daisy.
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder

27. Motifs
Gatsby's father
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
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

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

29. Klipspringer

30. Daisy Buchanan

31. On the day after the confrontation between Tom and Gatsby in New York City - what does Gatsby instruct his gardener not to do?
To learn about the bond business
The Jazz Age
Drain the pool
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

32. genre
Drain the pool
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
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 lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's

33. time and place written
The Jazz Age
F. Scott Fitzgerald
America and France
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

34. Where did Gatsby study after the war?
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Oxford
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I

35. On the day after the confrontation between Tom and Gatsby in New York City - what does Gatsby instruct his gardener not to do?
To impress Daisy.
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
Drain the pool
The Green Light

36. Where does Gatsby recognize Nick from?
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 Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
They are cousins.

37. Motifs
Because she taunts him about Daisy
To impress Daisy.
Geography
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;

38. time and place written
America and France
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Gatsby's father
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

39. Nick Carraway

40. Symbols
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
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 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 Green Light

41. Which millionaire hired the young Gatsby as an assistant?
Drain the pool
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
Minnesota

42. When he renews his acquaintance with Daisy at Nick's house - what does Gatsby knock off of the mantle?
Geography
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Long Island and New York City
A clock

43. climax
Tom
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 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
Long Island and New York City

44. settings (place)
Minnesota
Oxford
Golfer
Long Island and New York City

45. What is Nick's home state?
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
Oxford
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners

46. Motifs
Oxford
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Geography
Drain the pool

47. settings (place)
Long Island and New York City
Geography
Louisville
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

48. Where is Gatsby's mansion located?
The Green Light
America and France
West Egg
A signboard in the valley of ashes

49. Symbols
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
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
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

50. Why does Tom hit Myrtle at his apartment in New York City?
Daisy
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.
Geography

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