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This character buys a house across the water from his life long love.
Who is Jay Gatsby "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. Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light"
100
This character was a former preacher who gave up his ministry out of a belief that all human experience is holy.
Who is Jim Casy "A girl was just a girl to you. They wasn't nothin' to you. But to me they was holy vessels."
100
The Grapes of Wrath takes place during a natural disaster in the 1930s known as the ___________
What is Dust Bowl
100
In chapter 26 of the Grapes of Wrath Tom and Casy get in a fight with a couple guards and Casy is ________.
What is killed/murdered.
100
These two people have the same letters for their first and last names.
Who are Jim Casy and Jesus Christ.
200
This character has just been released from jail for killing a man and says he would do it again.
Who is Tom Joad "I'd do what I done—again," said Joad. "I killed a guy in a fight."
200
This character soon dies after being removed from the land he spent his entire life on.
Who is Grampa Joad. "I tell ya I ain't goin', an' ya can lump it. Take Granma with ya if ya want, but ya ain't takin' me, an' that's the end of it."
200
The Great Gatsby takes place during a time known as the _______ ___________.
What is The Roaring Twenties.
200
________ was driving Gatsby's car and hit Myrtle.
Who is Daisy Buchanan "What happened—that’s what I want to know!" "Auto hit her. Ins’antly killed."
200
This character in the Great Gatsby is much like Tom Joad. He follows his morals very religiously.
Who is Nick Carraway.
300
This character returns to his home town in Minnesota, after spending time on West Egg in New York, to follow his tradition moral values
Who is Nick Carraway
300
This character skips the draft because of his enormous wealth.
Who is Tom Buchanan
300
This state is where most migrant families are hoping to travel to. It is told to be abundant with job opportunities.
What is California. "Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange."
300
At the end of The Grapes of Wrath ______ ___ ______ helps the starving man.
Who is Rose of Sharon. "Her hand moved behind his head and supported it. Her fingers moved gently in his hair. She looked up and across the barn, and her lips came together and smiled mysteriously.
300
Both The Great Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath do an excellent job of portraying the American ________ of the time.
What is Dream.
400
This character willingly dies for his cause to organize the migrant workers.
Who is Jim Casy
400
What was Jay Gatsby's original name?
What is James Gatz. James Gatz—that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career."
400
This place is the dark gloomy area in between East and West Egg.
What is The Valley of Ashes. "This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air."
400
At the party with Tom and the McKees, Nick claims to have gotten ______ for only the second time in his life.
What is drunk. "I have been drunk just twice in my life and the second time was that afternoon"
400
Both The Grapes of Wrath and The Great Gatsby feature tragic _______ of important Characters.
What is deaths.
500
This character helped Gatsby make his fortune by bootlegging illegal liquor.
Who is Meyer Wolfsheim "Meyer Wolfshiem? No, he’s a gambler." Gatsby hesitated, then added coolly: "He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919."
500
This character refuses to leave his land. Instead, he lets his wife and children move to California without him and stays behind to live outdoors.
Who is Muley Graves "Huh? No. I don't go no place, an' I don't leave no place."
500
The island that both Nick and Gatsby live on. Considered the home of the "new rich".
What is West Egg. "I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two"
500
When Nick returns home from the party he sees Gatsby reaching out towards a ______ light.
What is green
500
This character is the exact opposite of Nick, completely immoral as well as sexist and racist.
Who is Tom Buchanan.