Setting
The "less fashionable" of the two, this is the place Nick and Gatsby call home for the summer.
The full name of the narrator of The Great Gatsby
What is Nick Carraway?
This is why Nick drives over to East Egg in Chapter 1.
What is to have dinner with Tom and Daisy?
What should you be wearing and have visible on you at all times in the school building?
What is a lanyard and ID?
This is the word used for the ban on the sale and production of alchohol.
What is Prohibition?
This dark, bleak landscape is home to many working class New Yorkers.
What is the Valley of Ashes
The name of Nick's mysterious next-door neighbor - often seen staring across the water and "trembling"
What is Gatsby?
This is what Nick sees Gatsby reaching for across Long Island Sound at the end of Chapter 1.
What is the green light?
What is the plastic part of the shoe lace called?
What is an aglet?
This is the word used for the "New Women" of the 1920s, often wearing more masculine fashions and entering into more traditionally "male" spaces.
What are Flappers?
This is the name of the New York borough where Nick, Gatsby, Tom & Daisy all live.
What is Long Island?
A famous golfer, Nick meets this person in Chapter 1 on a visit to East Egg.
Who is Jordan Baker?
What is he is hoping Tom will sell him a car?
Who did J. Cole write a diss track about on his new album?
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
This is the global historical event that influenced the Roaring Twenties and in which Nick and Gatsby both participated
What is World War I?
This is where the massive party is thrown in Chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby
What is Gatsby's mansion?
This is the name of the woman who Tom is having an affair with in the city - neither of them can STAND the person they're married to!
What is Myrtle Wilson?
This is what Tom does to Myrtle at the end of Chapter 2.
What is he breaks her nose?
Who is the current Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Champion?
Who is Joey Chestnut?
This is the name of the invention that became a status symbol in the 1920s - even flashier versions serve the same purpose in modern times!
What is the automobile?
This is the year that the main story of The Great Gatsby is set in.
What is 1922?
This is the nickname given to the strange man we meet in Gatsby's library in Chapter 3 - he simply cannot believe all those books are REAL!
What is Owl Eyes?
This is what Nick receives in Chapter 3 that apparently none of Gatsby's other guests receives.
What is an invitation?
How many pets does Mr. Purcell have?
What is one cat?
This is the industry that Nick comes to NYC to participate in.
What is the "bond business" or stock market?