Theme
Characters
Quotes (who said it?)
Symbols
Historical connections
100
What is the main theme of the novel
What is the American dream
100
Narrator of novel
Who is Nick Carraway
100
"Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"
What is Jay Gatsby
100
Symbolizes Gatsby's "unattainable dream"
What is the green light?
100
Time period of the novel?
What is the 1920's?
200
In The Great Gatsby, money makes the world go 'round—or at least gets you moving in the right direction. It can buy you yellow Rolls-Royces, "gas blue" dresses, and really nice shirts, but in the end it can't buy you happiness.
What is wealth
200
Gatsby's lover
Who is Daisy Buchanan
200
"Her voice is full of money"
What is Jay Gatsby
200
Symbolizes wisdom and death
What is the Owl-eyed man?
200
Famous dance of the 1920's?
What is the Charleston?
300
He does not attend the funeral, but he does call Nick about a pair of tennis shoes that he left at Gatsby’s mansion.
Who is Klipspringer
300
"I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
What is Daisy Buchanan
300
Symbolizes that Gatsby is a "fraud"
What is Gatsby's books?
300
Another name for the 1920s
What is the "jazz age"
400
What theme is represented by Gatsby keeping his alcohol bootlegging a secret?
What is prohibition
400
Cheated in order to win her first golf tournament and continually bends the truth.
Who is Jordan Baker
400
"It takes two to make an accident"
What is Jordan Baker
400
Symbolizes "money" (colors)
What is yellow and gold?
400
What war had just ended?
What is WW1
500
What themes do Gatsby and Nick represent
What is past and future
500
Gatsby's assassin
Who is George Wilson
500
"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther . . . . And one fine morning — So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
What is Nick Carraway
500
Symbolizes "god"
What is the Doctors glasses? (T.J Eckleburg)
500
What was coming to the United States in large amounts during this time period?
What is immigrants?
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