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Gatsby
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This character is the first to reveal the history of Daisy and Gatsby's relationship to Nick.
Who is Jordan Baker?
100
This is the section of New York where Nick and Gatsby live.
What is West Egg?
100
What drives Jay Gatsby? What theme emerges based on his actions?
What is trying to relive the glorious past.
100
Gatsby uses this short phrase to address Nick.
What is old sport?
100
Gatsby uses this phrase to figuratively describe what Daisy's voice sounds like.
What is "her voice is full of money"?
200
This character is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson.
Who is Tom Buchanan?
200
This is the nickname of the area where you can find the billboard of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg.
What is the Valley of Ashes?
200
What is the importance of the East and the MidWest in the book?
What is the East is a place of pollution, industrial excess, and obsession with wealth; the Midwest is a purer place with a better life and more traditional values.
200
This man was Gatsby's mentor; he left an inheritance to Gatsby that Gatsby was unable to claim.
Who is Dan Cody?
200
What could the Valley of Ashes symbolize?
What is the destruction of society due to excess greed.
300
Poor boy from South Dakota. (real name)
Who is James Gatz?
300
This is the section of New York associated with "Old Money."
What is East Egg?
300
Name at least 3 things culturally that illustrate "The Roaring 20's."
What is prohibition, bootlegging, jazz music, party lifestyle, New York City?
300
This is how Gatsby dies.
Who is George Wilson?
300
What symbolizes the idea of God watching over the world in the play?
What is the billboard of T. J. Eckleburg and the owl-eyed man?
400
This acquaintance of Gatsby's fixed the 1919 World Series.
Who is Meyer Wolfshiem?
400
This is the state where James Gatz was born.
What is North Dakota?
400
How does the American Dream play a part in the story as it relates to both Nick and Gatsby?
What is both Nick and Gatsby try to make something of themselves by moving to New York; both are searching for a better life?
400
Gatsby served in Europe during this war.
What is WWI?
400
What does the green light symbolize in the play?
What is Gatsby's dream and hope to be with Daisy?
500
This party-goer plays the piano and lives at Gatsby's house.
Who is Ewing Klipspringer?
500
This city is where Jordan and Daisy knew each other and grew up before moving to New York.
What is Louisville?
500
What 2 terms attempt to convey social status as played out in West Egg and East Egg?
What is "Old Money" vs "New Money"?
500
This is what Gatsby wants Daisy to tell everyone in the tense scene at the hotel in Chapter VII.
What is that she never loved Tom?
500
How does the color yellow's meaning as a symbol change in the book?
The color goes from representing wealth and money to representing death and destruction. Gatsby's yellow car is called "the death car"?