Characters
Going Places
Descriptions & Quotations
Themes
Making Scenes
100

There were men at Yale who hated his guts.

Who is Tom Buchanan?

100

Location of the Buchanan house

What is East Egg?

100

He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling.

How did Nick describe his first glimpse of Gatsby?

100

Not everyone was born with the same ones.

What are advantages in life?

100

Tom and Myrtle evidently disappear into this at the Manhattan apartment, leaving Nick to read a chapter of a horrible book until they come back.

What is a the bedroom?

200

This person waits for the longest day of the year and then misses it.

Who is Daisy?

200

The "less fashionable" neighborhood. 


What is West Egg?

200

Tells Nick, "I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.”

Who is Daisy?

200

Old and new

What are the two types of money in the book?

200

No one swooned backward on this person, and no French bob touched his shoulder, and no singing quartets were formed with his head for one link.

Who is Gatsby?

300

She told her husband she was going to NYC to visit with her sister.

Who is Myrtle?

300

By train, in Ch. 2

How did Nick, Tom, and Myrtle travel in New York?

300

Tom says this could become "Utterly submerged."

What is the white race?

300

Nick's reaction to learning of this is to want to phone the police.

What is Tom's affair with Myrtle?

300

The drunk woman singing in the large room with piano At Gatsby's party evidently needed a waterproof version of this.

What is mascara?

400

This person instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men.

Who is Jordan Baker?

400

George Wilson lives and work there.

What is the "valley of the ashes"?

400

This person had "an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness ..." according to Nick

Who is Gatsby?

400

This always seems to be simmering right below the surface in the novel.

What is violence?

400

One of the men was talking with curious intensity to a young actress, and his wife... resorted to flank attacks — at intervals she appeared suddenly at his side like an angry ___, and hissed: “You promised!” into his ear. [supply the correct noun]

What is 'diamond'?

500

Mrs. Sigourney Howard--she's in the phone book.

Who is Jordan's aunt?

500

Manhattan neighborhood where Tom keep's a apartment for him and Myrtle.

What is the Upper West Side?

500

Doesn't like careless people; says, “It takes two to make an accident.”


Who is Jordan Baker?

500

In his inexperience, Nick doesn't believe that young men can "drift coolly out of _____ and buy a ____ on ____."

What is "drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound"?

500

This came off at the end of the party in Ch. 3 

What is a car's wheel?

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