Real or a Dream?
Fight Back
Do As I Say
I Can Do It!
No, I Said—
100

How long were Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan separated after Gatsby went off to war?

Five years

100

Which location visited by Clint Smith contained the Red Hat?

Angola Prison

100

What is the name of Gatsby’s business accomplice?

Meyer Wolfshiem

100

What motivated Gatsby to become rich?

The need to provide for and impress Daisy

100

How do many of Clint Smith’s tour guides answer his questions about the racist history of the U.S.?

They glaze over them and start talking about other things

200

What was the gathering at Blandford Cemetery celebrating?

The Confederate States of America

200

What was Elwood’s method of resistance against the racism of Nickel Academy and the surrounding town?

Writing letters to inspectors to expose the injustice

200

How does Gatsby become rich? - Hint: It’s not what he told Nick

Bootlegging

200

Who is the man who taught Gatsby how to act wealthy?

Dan Cody

200

What about the surroundings of Nickel Academy allows them to continue their abusive and neglectful habits?

The townspeople

300

What is the large familial reason that Daisy cannot divorce Tom and marry Gatsby?

Pammy Buchanan

300

How does Thoreau decide to fight against consumerism and modern society? - Hint: Separation

Living in a cabin in the middle of the woods

300

What are the two places used to physically abuse the Nickel Academy students?

The White House and “Out back”

300

What food did Thoreau enjoy farming for himself most at Walden Pond?

Beans

300

Why does Gatsby hide the real way he became rich?

To impress Daisy with clean money

400

On his journey through our nation’s racist history, which place did Clint Smith visit first (following the chronology of the book)?

Monticello Plantation

400

Who unintentionally defied Spencer regarding the yearly boxing match at Nickel Academy?

Griff

400

Why was Griff told to lose the annual boxing match?

To maintain white supremacy?

400

What did Thoreau resort to rather than socializing while at Walden Pond?

Reading

400

What is the last location visited by Clint Smith (following the chronology of the book)?

Gorée Island

500

What is Gatsby’s quote when referring to trying to relive the good old days with Daisy?

“Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”

500

Who was Clint Smith’s tour guide on the walking tour of the Underground Railroad?

Damaras Obi (D)

500

Why does Tom tell Daisy to head down to their car in Chapter 7 after Gatsby’s emotional outburst?

He knows he has won her back and is no longer worried about Gatsby stealing her

500

What quality did Thoreau contain that most of us with social media lack nowadays?

Patience

500

How is Elwood stopped from exposing the darkness of Nickel Academy?

He was placed (and beaten) in solitary confinement