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Trivia: The Great Gatsby

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1. Myrtle Wilson

2. Tom Buchanan

3. Symbols
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.
West Egg
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
The Valley of Ashes

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

5. settings (place)
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'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 rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
Long Island and New York City

6. What are the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg?
Between West Egg and New York City
A signboard in the valley of ashes
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
Protagonist of the novel - Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Famous for the lavish parties

7. Symbols
The Green Light
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
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;
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's

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

9. Owl Eyes

10. Nick Carraway

11. What are the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg?
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
A signboard in the valley of ashes
Weather
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion

12. Where does Gatsby recognize Nick from?
Drain the pool
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
Gatsby's father

13. Which woman is Tom's extramarital lover?
Myrtle
Protagonist of the novel - Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Famous for the lavish parties
Geography
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

14. At the end of the novel - Daisy chooses to be with
Minnesota
Yale
Dan Cody
Tom

15. In what year is The Great Gatsby set?
1922
A signboard in the valley of ashes
To learn about the bond business
The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg

16. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?
West Egg
Tom
The Jazz Age
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.

17. Jay Gatsby
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.
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
Between West Egg and New York City

18. settings (place)
Dan Cody
Between West Egg and New York City
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.
Long Island and New York City

19. Why does Nick move to New York?
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
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion
Daisy
To learn about the bond business

20. What is Meyer Wolfshiem's claim to fame?
Daisy
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 rigged the 1919 World Series
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.

21. Which woman is Tom's extramarital lover?
Weather
Geography
The Green Light
Myrtle

22. Why does Gatsby throw his weekly parties?
Myrtle
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 impress Daisy.
Geography

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

24. rising action

25. When he renews his acquaintance with Daisy at Nick's house - what does Gatsby knock off of the mantle?
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.
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.
A clock
He rigged the 1919 World Series

26. author
West Egg
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.
The Green Light
F. Scott Fitzgerald

27. Where did Daisy meet Gatsby?
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
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
He rigged the 1919 World Series
Louisville

28. falling action

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

30. 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
Louisville
The eccentric - bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion
Because she taunts him about Daisy

31. Symbols
The Valley of Ashes
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
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
West Egg

32. Symbols
Modernist novel - Jazz Age novel - novel of manners
The Green Light
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder
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.

33. time and place written
Tom
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 Green Light
America and France

34. Where were Nick and Tom educated?
Yale
They are cousins.
The Green Light
1922

35. George Wilson

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

37. author
Golfer
To impress Daisy.
Between West Egg and New York City
F. Scott Fitzgerald

38. In what year is The Great Gatsby set?
To impress Daisy.
Gatsby's lavish parties - Gatsby's arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick's
1922
Daisy

39. Where were Nick and Tom educated?
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
Yale
At Nick's house
He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition.

40. time and place written
At Nick's house
America and France
1922
The Valley of Ashes

41. 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.
To impress 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

42. Who drives the car that kills Myrtle?
Daisy
Weather
A clock
A clock

43. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?
Long Island and New York City
Oxford
Yale
The Jazz Age

44. Daisy Buchanan

45. major conflict
Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I
Geography
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
1922

46. Daisy Buchanan

47. What is Nick's home state?
The Valley of Ashes
Minnesota
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
Dan Cody

48. Jordan Baker

49. What is Jordan Baker's occupation?
Geography
Nick's cousin - and the woman Gatsby loves. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island.
Golfer
Daisy's rejection of Gatsby - Myrtle's death - Gatsby's murder

50. Owl Eyes