What is the billboard? The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg?
100
The "boarder" who lives in Gatsby's house.
Who is Klipspringer?
100
The concept that the material realities of life drive the historical narrative.
What is the material dialectic?
100
The first author to formally introduce the concept of utopias.
Who is Thomas More?
100
Painstaking; strict attention to details.
What is punctilious?
200
What did Gatsby's books symbolize?
Answers may vary. Acceptable responses may include:
Represents the "old money" facade that Gatsby strives to portray
Like Gatbsy, the pages are unopened (the details of Gatsby's life are unknown
200
Which of these details is true about Gatsby's past?
A. He received a degree from Oxford.
B. He is the son of wealthy people in the Midwest
C. He fought in the war.
D. He made his fortune from an inheritance from Dan Cody
C.
200
German philosopher in the 19th century who developed one of the critical theories; the theory?
Who is Karl Marx? What is Marxism?
200
The major purpose of utopian literature.
What is social commentary?
200
Tending to delay or procrastinate.
What is dilatory?
300
Name one example of how materialism and consumption is present within the world of the characters.
Answers may vary. Acceptable responses:
Gatsby's shirts
Materials shipped in for the party; crate of citrus fruits
300
. Why does Tom break Myrtle's nose?
(a): He finds out she's having an affair with another man
(b): She says Daisy's name
(c): Tom tries to punch Nick and misses
(d): None of these
What is B?
300
The three areas of the mind identified in Freud's theories.
What is the id, ego, and superego?
300
One particular element of utopian literature that deals with the utopia's myths, legends, and religious beliefs.
What is metaphysics?
300
A mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence.
What is a vestige?
400
Name one example of how the theme "memory and past" manifests within the text.
"You can't repeat the past."-Nick
400
George Wilson found out who owned the car through:
A. registration
B. the police
C. Tom
D. Daisy
C
400
Gender/queer criticism: The ideology commonly held that characterizes heterosexuality as "normal" and homosexuality as "deviant" or wrong.
What is heteronormativity?
400
One physical feature present in both Utopia and Omelas; common in all utopias.
What is isolation? (Utopia-island; Omelas-surrounded by mountains)
400
Disdainful or contemptuous?
What is supercilious?
500
What does the green light at the end of the dock represent?
Answers may vary.
Acceptable responses:
The unattainable American Dream
The hazy feature just beyond our grasp
The orgastic future just beyond our grasp
500
Daisy's hometown.
What is Louisville?
500
Name the school of literary criticism that would be most likely to ask the following questions:
How does the interaction of the reader and text crete meaning?
How does your interpretive community change the meaning of the text?
What is reader-response criticism?
500
The guiding principle of utopian life; how utopians define virtue.