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The only named character to attend Gatsby's funeral other than his father and Nick was this man, who had previously visited Gatsby's mansion for the extravagant parties.

Who is Owl-Eyes?

100

This suburb on Long Island is home to Old Money elites like Tom and Daisy.

What is East Egg?

100

During their reunion in Chapter 5, Daisy begins to cry after Gatsby throws a pile of these items at her.

What are shirts?

100

"So we beat on, _______ against the _______ born back ceaselessly into the _______."

What are boats, current, and past?

100

During the drive into the city in Chapter 7, Tom expresses doubt that Gatsby could be an Oxford man because he was wearing this color suit.

What is Pink?

200

In Chapter 5, Nick finds a picture of this man in Gatsby's mansion. We later find out that Gatsby had worked for this man and was set to inherit a large sum of money from him, until this man's ex-wife blocked the inheritance through some legal means.

Who is Dan Cody?

200

Daisy and Jordan are originally from this city. Additionally, this is where Gatsby first met and fell in love with Daisy, and it's the city in which Tom and Daisy were married.

What is Louisville, Kentucky?

200

Meyer Wolfsheim wears a pair of these kind of human teeth as cuff links! (Or, as a tie pin in the movie)

What are molars?

200

While having a tough conversation with this person, Nick has the following realization:

"I'm thirty. I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor."

Who is Jordan?

200

This is the brand of car that Gatsby drives.

What is Rolls-Royce?

300

The principal witness to Myrtle's death is this young, Greek man who owns a coffee shop next door to Wilson's garage.

Who is Michaelis?

300

In chapter 6, we learn that Jay Gatsby, or James Gatz, is originally from this state.

What is North Dakota?

300

On the day that Gatsby died, he insisted that he and Nick make use of this, which Gatsby said he had not used all summer.

What is the pool?

300

This character makes the following lamentation:

"You see, I think everything is terrible anyhow. Everybody thinks so — the most advanced people. And I KNOW. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. SOPHISTICATED- God, I'm sophisticated."

Who is Daisy?

300

Before they moved to Long Island, Tom and Daisy lived in this city. Which is where Tom is originally from.

What is Chicago?

400

This man who basically lived in Gatsby's mansion, often referred to as "The Boarder", plays piano for Daisy and Gatsby as they dance in Chapter 5. However, when Nick informs him of Gatsby's death, this man says he will not be able to attend the funeral and asks Nick to mail him a pair of tennis shoes he had left there.

Who is Ewing Klipspringer?

400

The climactic argument that explodes in Chapter 7 happens in a parlor suite of this famous New York hotel, which first opened in 1907.

What is the Plaza hotel?

400

Gatsby keeps a medal he earned for "Valour Extraordinary" from this country, with capital at Podgorica.

What is Montenegro?

400

When Nick is recounting Gatsby's history in Chapter 6, he makes the following observation:

"The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his __________ __________ of himself." 

What is Platonic Conception?

400

This is how much money Nick paid each month to rent the small cottage next to Gatsby's mansion.

What is $80?

500

During the apartment party in chapter 2, Nick leaves with this man, who insists Nick join him for lunch sometime in the city. Curiously, the narrative then skips forward to Nick describing how this man looks propped up in his bed in his underwear reading a newspaper at 4 o'clock in the morning.

Who is Mr. McKee?

500

During the lunch scene in Chapter 4 with Wolfsheim, Nick, and Gatsby, Wolfsheim exclaims that he would rather eat at this restaurant across the street, which he describes as being "filled with faces dead and gone... filled with friends gone now forever."

What is the Old Metropole?

500

As a wedding gift, Tom bought this item for Daisy worth roughly $350,000.

What is a string of pearls?

500

Nick's final words to Gatsby were:

"Good-by. I _________ __________, Gatsby."

What is Enjoyed Breakfast?

500

Gatsby, while still James Gatz, wrote a regiment for self-improvement in the back of a copy of this book.

What is Hopalong Cassidy?

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