Roaring '20s, Jazz Age
What is Prohibition?
"I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool" (17).
Who is Daisy?
He is the narrator of this story--whole name, please.
Who is Nick Caraway?
This is the state in which Frederick Douglass was born.
What is Maryland?
Although Christmas is near, I still have shopping to do.
"Although Christmas is near," is a ______ ________
What is a dependent clause?
This war, known then as the "The Great War," had occurred before the Jazz Age.
What is WWI, World War One?
"Oh--you're Jordan Baker" (18).
Who is Nick?
This is the complete setting of the story, both parts, please.
What is 1920s New York? (Also acceptable: NY City/Long Island).
This was Frederick Douglass's name before he changed it.
What is Fredrick Bailey?
Because you have been such a good student, you will be highly successful.
"You will be highly successful" is ______ _______.
What is an independent clause?
This is the name of the movement for women trying to get the right to vote.
What is "Women's Suffrage"?
"It's a b*&%," said _____ decisively. "Here's your money. Go and buy ten more dogs with it" (28).
Who is Tom?
She is an athlete and friend of Daisy Buchanan.
Who is Jordan Baker?
This was a place where Douglass and his friends were able to gather, organize, and learn to read--at least until they were rudely interupted.
What is Sabbath School, or church?
This type of sentence only has a dependent clause followed by another dependent clause.
What is no sentence?
A correct sentence has at least one independent clause.
This music style originated in New Orleans from African American musicians blending different styles with big band instruments. Louis Armstrong lead the movement with his cool trumpet playing.
What is Jazz?
"I thought you knew, old sport. I'm afraid I'm not a very good host" (48).
Who is Jay Gatsby? (Or Gatsby).
Nick describes these two opposite locations where characters live as these two things.
What are East and West Egg?
Douglass vividly described the terrible treatment of these two family members.
Who are his aunt Hester and his grandmother?
This sentence has two ______________.
What are independent clauses?
This art and literature movement flourished in a New York borough during the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
"Let's get out," whispered ________, after a somehow wasteful and inappropriate half-hour; "this is much too polite for me" (45).
Who is Jordan Baker?
Nick first saw him gazing across the bay in the evening under the stars.
Who is Gatsby?
Douglass learned some new words that helped shape his thinking by reading this book.
What is The Columbian Orator?
Franny and Zoey like to go shopping at the outlet mall, drive across town, and eat lunch at Denny's.
This is a _________________ sentence.
What is a simple sentence.