The Great Gatsby

Question 1

Who refuses to leave her husband for Gatsby

Answer 1

Daisy

Question 2

Thinks the books at Gatsby’s are fake

Answer 2

Owl Eyes

Question 3

Moves to west egg

Answer 3

Nick

Question 4

Runs over Myrtle with a car

Answer 4

Daisy

Question 5

Claims to have run over Myrtle

Answer 5

Gatsby

Question 6

Dies in a pool

Answer 6

Gatsby

Question 7

Has lavish parties

Answer 7

Gatsby

Question 8

Cries over a collection of shirts

Answer 8

Daisy

Question 9

Has an affair with Myrtle

Answer 9

Tom

Question 10

Invites Gatsby to dinner to embarrass him

Answer 10

The Sloanes

Question 11

Who flaunts their affair

Answer 11

Daisy

Question 12

Arranges Gatsby’s funeral

Answer 12

Nick

Question 13

Angers Tom by repeating Daisy’s name

Answer 13

Myrtle

Question 14

Narrates the novel

Answer 14

Nick

Question 15

Believes Gatsby killed Myrtle

Answer 15

Wilson

Question 16

Two examples of things that the green light is symbolic for

Answer 16

The American Dream and Daisy

Question 17

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

Answer 17

She is everything because that’s what he wants to obtain but she is nothing because she will never leave Tom.

Question 18

How is Gatsby a man of the past?

Answer 18

He wants to live in the past or at least freeze time and Nick calls him an “over-wound clock”.

Question 19

What does Fitzgerald believe is no longer obtainable in America?

Answer 19

The American Dream

Question 20

How is “Ain’t we got Fun” in this story ironic?

Answer 20

Daisy rejects Gatsby originally because of his lack of wealth

Question 21

What is significant about Dan Cody’s story?

Answer 21

He is another Gatsby.

Question 22

Gatsby’s death happens on the first day of Autumn and it is getting cold; how is swimming typical Gatsby behavior?

Answer 22

He is trying to control time.

Question 23

Paradies the Jazz Age

Answer 23

The Party

Question 24

Ruin of America

Answer 24

Gatsby’s death

Question 25

Danger in luxury

Answer 25

The Cars

Question 26

The end of the dream

Answer 26

End of Summer

Question 27

Foreshadows Gatsby’s life

Answer 27

Dan Cody

Question 28

Post War vision of America

Answer 28

The Valley of Ashes

Question 29

A heartless uninvolved god.

Answer 29

The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg

Question 30

Inability to control time

Answer 30

Breaks the clock

Question 31

Gatsby’s lonely funeral

Answer 31

Cross the Bridge

Question 32

An unattainable goal

Answer 32

Green Light

Question 33

Explain Gatsby as the “American Dream”

Answer 33

Gatsby is seen as the “American Dream” in the The Great Gatsby. Gatsby “sprang from his Platonic conception of himself and he is trying to perfect himself to fit others. By changing his name but keeping it similar he shows that he is reinventing himself in his own terms. His childhood all adds to the concept because if the poor child becoming a self made man. Lastly his janitorial job shows his sensitivity to class.

Question 34

Who Fitzgerald married?

Answer 34

Zelda Sayre

Question 35

What does Nick call Gatsby that reflect Gatsby's reflection to time?

Answer 35

“over-wound clock”