The Great Gatsby Test Review Questions and Answers All Correct
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The Great Gatsby Test Review Questions and Answers All Correct
Who lives in the Valley of Ashes? - Answer-George and Myrtle Wilson live in the Valley of Ashes.
Why can't Tom marry Myrtle? - Answer-Tom tells Myrtle that his wife (Daisy) is Catholic, and he can't get a divorce.
What is the ...
The Great Gatsby Test Review Questions
and Answers All Correct
Who lives in the Valley of Ashes? - Answer-George and Myrtle Wilson live in the Valley
of Ashes.
Why can't Tom marry Myrtle? - Answer-Tom tells Myrtle that his wife (Daisy) is Catholic,
and he can't get a divorce.
What is the first rumor we learn about Gatsby? - Answer-The first rumor is that he is the
nephew or cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm.
What were other rumors/facts about Gatsby from Chapter 3? - Answer-He killed a man
once.
He was a German spy during the war.
All the books in his library are real.
He was in the American army during the war.
Nick first describes Gatsby as - Answer-full of hope and romantic readiness
West Egg - Answer-Gatsby and Nick live here, home to new money, gaudy and
flamboyant, people that made their money through hard work and aren't afraid to show it
East Egg - Answer-Tom, Daisy, and Jordan live here, home to old money, classy.
People were born into wealth.
Valley of Ashes - Answer-George and Myrtle live here, Poor area, scene of death,
located between east and west egg
NYC Apartment - Answer-Rich and over crowded, very gaudy and unlike East Egg, paid
for by Tom to have affair with Daisy in
NYC Hotel - Answer-Gatsby loses grip on Daisy, Tom confronts Jay
Tom Buchanan - Answer-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 never even considers trying to live up to the moral standard he demands from those
around him.
Daisy Buchanan - Answer-Nick's cousin, and the woman Gatsby loves. As a young
woman in Louisville before the war, Daisy was courted by a number of officers,
including Gatsby. She fell in love with Gatsby and promised to wait for him. However,
, Daisy harbors a deep need to be loved, and when a wealthy, powerful young man
named Tom Buchanan asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby
after all. Now a beautiful socialite, Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the
fashionable East Egg district of Long Island. She is sardonic and somewhat cynical, and
behaves superficially to mask her pain at her husband's constant infidelity.
Fitzgerald coined the term _ _ _ _ age? - Answer-Jazz
Fitzgeralds influences were? - Answer-Alcohol and aspirations
Is Fitzgeralds life similar to Jay Gatsby? - Answer-Yes
Jay Gatsby was about how old? - Answer-30
He was rich/poor in his childhood? - Answer-poor
Initially, Gatsby is presented as? - Answer-An aloof host of gaudy parties
What was his original name? - Answer-James Gatz
He believes in illusion - true or false? - Answer-True
As the novel develops Gatsby is ever persistent in pursuing Daisy - what does he not
realize? - Answer-His dream is not worthy of himself
As his dream of Daisy disintergrates what is revealed? - Answer-The corruption that
wealth causes
Gatsby is juztaposed (compared) mainly with two characters - who? - Answer-Tom
Buchanan and Nick Carraway
What does the juztaposition (comparison) of Nick and Gatsby comment on? - Answer-
Gatsby is passionate and active, and Nick is sober and reflective.
Nick Carraway plays what role? - Answer-Narrator
Nick's role as the narrator - Answer-As readers, we only know what Nick tells us
How old is Nick? - Answer-30
What does Nick do? - Answer-Bonds Man
He opens the book exposing himself as... - Answer-honest and reserved
He (Nick) confides in the book that... (Q) - Answer-"I'm inclined to reserve all
judgements,"
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