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Trivia: The Great Gatsby

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1. genre
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
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
The Valley of Ashes
Weather

2. What is Nick's home state?
Minnesota
Louisville
Golfer
At Nick's house

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

4. Where does Gatsby recognize Nick from?
West Egg
Myrtle
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
To impress Daisy.

5. Where is 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
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
Minnesota
Between West Egg and New York City

6. rising action

7. 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
Between West Egg and New York City
Gatsby's father

8. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?
Drain the pool
Gatsby's father
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
The Jazz Age

9. Owl Eyes

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

11. Where were Nick and Tom educated?
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
Yale
Dan Cody
Dan Cody

12. 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
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
Dan Cody
America and France

13. When he renews his acquaintance with Daisy at Nick's house - what does Gatsby knock off of the mantle?
1922
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion
A signboard in the valley of ashes
A clock

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

15. Tom Buchanan

16. Why does Gatsby throw his weekly parties?
Long Island and New York City
Weather
To impress Daisy.
West Egg

17. time and place written
Between West Egg and New York City
Louisville
America and France
At Nick's house

18. What are the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg?
A signboard in 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
The Jazz Age
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.

19. Daisy Buchanan

20. Where did Gatsby study after the war?
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 Green Light
Oxford
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.

21. Klipspringer

22. major conflict
Oxford
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 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

23. How are Daisy and Nick related?
A signboard in the valley of ashes
They are cousins.
The Valley of Ashes
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder

24. Myrtle Wilson

25. On the day after the confrontation between Tom and Gatsby in New York City - what does Gatsby instruct his gardener not to do?
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
West Egg
America and France
Drain the pool

26. genre
The Green Light
1922
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
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.

27. Motifs
Minnesota
America and France
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

28. Themes
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's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.
Drain the pool
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s

29. Tom Buchanan

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

31. falling action

32. point of view
Weather
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
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
Long Island and New York City

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

34. What is Jordan Baker's occupation?
They are cousins.
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
Yale
Golfer

35. How are Daisy and Nick related?
They are cousins.
Protagonist of the novel - Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Famous for the lavish parties
To learn about the bond business
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's

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
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
Yale

37. George Wilson

38. Why did Gatsby drop out of college?
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
The Green Light
The Jazz Age
America and France

39. author
West Egg
Myrtle
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Protagonist of the novel - Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Famous for the lavish parties

40. Daisy Buchanan

41. What is Meyer Wolfshiem's claim to fame?
Drain the pool
He rigged the 1919 World Series
Geography
Golfer

42. At the end of the novel - Daisy chooses to be with
Because she taunts him about Daisy
Tom
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
A clock

43. rising action

44. author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Minnesota
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
He rigged the 1919 World Series

45. What is Nick's home state?
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
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
Minnesota

46. Themes
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.
They are cousins.
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s

47. Symbols
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
Dan Cody
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
West Egg

48. Symbols
The Valley of Ashes
Long Island and New York City
The Jazz Age
Louisville

49. 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
Oxford
America and France

50. tone