Gatsby Test

Question 1

What is a post war vision of America

Answer 1

The valley of the ashes

Question 2

What is a symbol for a heartless uninvolved god?

Answer 2

TJ Eckleburg

Question 3

What is a symbol for the inability to control time?

Answer 3

Gatsby breaks the clock

Question 4

What is symbolic for an unattainable goal?

Answer 4

The Green Light

Question 5

What symbolizes the end of a dream, the end of Gatsby’s life?

Answer 5

The end of summer

Question 6

What is symbolic for the dangers and luxury?

Answer 6

Cars

Question 7

What is symbolic for the ruin of America?

Answer 7

Gatsby’s death

Question 8

What parodies the jazz age?

Answer 8

The lavish parties

Question 9

Refuses to leave her husband for Gatsby

Answer 9

Daisy

Question 10

Claims to have run over Myrtle

Answer 10

Gatsby

Question 11

Dies in a pool

Answer 11

Gatsby

Question 12

Cries over shirts

Answer 12

Daisy

Question 13

Having an affair with Myrtle

Answer 13

Tom

Question 14

Believes Gatsby killed Myrtle

Answer 14

Wilson

Question 15

Invites Gatsby to dinner in order to embarrass him

Answer 15

Tom

Question 16

Flaunts her affair to her husband

Answer 16

Daisy

Question 17

Arranges Gatsby’s funeral

Answer 17

Nick

Question 18

Narrates the novel

Answer 18

Nick

Question 19

Angers Tom by repeating Daisy’s name

Answer 19

Myrtle

Question 20

What term did Fitzgerald coin?

Answer 20

“The Jazz Age”

Question 21

Who did Fitzgerald marry?

Answer 21

Zelda Sayre

Question 22

Give 2 examples of things the green light is symbolic for.

Answer 22

Daisy and the American Dream

Question 23

What is significant about the telling of Dan Cody’s story?

Answer 23

He is like another Gatsby

Question 24

How is it possible for Daisy to be everything to Gatsby and nothing at the same time?

Answer 24

Because she is ALL Gatsby wants, she can NEVER be anything to him. She can’t lower herself to be with him. He would be social suicide

Question 25

How is Gatsby a man of the past?

Answer 25

He wants to live in the past or at least freeze time

Question 26

Gatsby’s death happens on the first day of autumn; how is swimming typical Gatsby behavior?

Answer 26

Swimming is a defiance of time and Gatsby is all about freezing time or going back in time

Question 27

How is the use of the song Ain’t We Got Fun, ironic?

Answer 27

Daisy rejected Gatsby originally because of his lack of wealth. “ No money, oh but honey Ain’t we got fun”

Question 28

Explain Gatsby as the American Dream

Answer 28

Good luck it's worth 15 points

Question 29

Thinks that the books at Gatsby’s are fake

Answer 29

Owl Eyes

Question 30

Moves to West Egg

Answer 30

Nick/Gatsby

Question 31

Runs over Myrtle with a car

Answer 31

Daisy

Question 32

What foreshadows Gatsby’s life?

Answer 32

Dan Cody

Question 33

What does Nick call Gatsby that reflects Gatsby’s connection to time?

Answer 33

Over wound clock

Question 34

What foreshadows Gatsby’s lonely funeral?

Answer 34

The funeral on the bridge

Question 35

According to Fitzgerald what is no longer possible in America?

Answer 35

The American Dream