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Trivia: The Great Gatsby

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1. How are Daisy and Nick related?
Yale
Gatsby's father
They are cousins.
West Egg

2. Tom Buchanan

3. When he renews his acquaintance with Daisy at Nick's house - what does Gatsby knock off of the mantle?
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
West Egg
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion
A clock

4. time and place written
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
America and France
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
Yale

5. 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.
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
Weather
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

6. Where did Gatsby study after the war?
Gatsby's father
Oxford
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.

7. Motifs
Between West Egg and New York City
Weather
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
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.

8. Myrtle Wilson

9. Nick Carraway

10. Where is Gatsby's mansion located?
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's father
West Egg
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg

11. Which millionaire hired the young Gatsby as an assistant?
Golfer
Geography
Dan Cody
Oxford

12. falling action

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

14. Why does Tom hit Myrtle at his apartment in New York City?
Minnesota
Because she taunts him about Daisy
America and France
Gatsby's father

15. Which woman is Tom's extramarital lover?
Myrtle
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
Because she taunts him about Daisy
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;

16. Myrtle Wilson

17. What are the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg?
A signboard in the valley of ashes
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Between West Egg and New York City

18. Where were Nick and Tom educated?
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
America and France
Dan Cody
Yale

19. In what year is The Great Gatsby set?
Oxford
The Green Light
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.
1922

20. Where is Gatsby's mansion located?
West Egg
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
America and France

21. At the end of the novel - Daisy chooses to be with
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
Tom
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion
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.

22. Nick Carraway

23. Themes
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
Geography
At Nick's house
America and France

24. Why does Gatsby throw his weekly parties?
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
They are cousins.
To impress Daisy.
To learn about the bond business

25. Why did Gatsby drop out of college?
Weather
Between West Egg and New York City
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Myrtle

26. tone

27. Jordan Baker

28. Why did Gatsby drop out of college?
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
He rigged the 1919 World Series

29. In what year is The Great Gatsby set?
Tom
1922
To impress Daisy.
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners

30. Symbols
Between West Egg and New York City
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
Tom
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg

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

32. Daisy Buchanan

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

34. Where did Daisy meet Gatsby?
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Myrtle
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

35. major conflict
America and France
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
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

36. climax
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
Between West Egg and New York City
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
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.

37. Which millionaire hired the young Gatsby as an assistant?
Tom
1922
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

38. Why does Gatsby throw his weekly parties?
Minnesota
To learn about the bond business
To impress Daisy.
America and France

39. What is Jordan Baker's occupation?
Tom
Tom
Golfer
Daisy

40. What is Jordan Baker's occupation?
West Egg
He rigged the 1919 World Series
Golfer
Because she taunts him about Daisy

41. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?
The Jazz Age
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 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

42. When he renews his acquaintance with Daisy at Nick's house - what does Gatsby knock off of the mantle?
A clock
He rigged the 1919 World Series
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion
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

43. How are Daisy and Nick related?
They are cousins.
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
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

44. Klipspringer

45. Where did Gatsby study after the war?
The Valley of Ashes
Oxford
Drain the pool
To impress Daisy.

46. Who drives the car that kills Myrtle?
Daisy
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
America and France
Long Island and New York City

47. At the end of the novel - Daisy chooses to be with
Tom
Golfer
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
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

48. Themes
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
Daisy
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

49. George Wilson

50. Where were Nick and Tom educated?
Between West Egg and New York City
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
West Egg

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