Characters
Vocabulary
Themes
Reading Comprehension
Organized Crime
100

What two characters fought in the war?

Nick and Gatsby

100

What does inevitably mean?

Certain to happen

100

What theme does this quotation represent?

"My family all died and I came into a good deal of money" (Fitzgerald 65).

Class (Old Money)

100

What is Gatsby asking from Nick?

To have a tea party at his home where he invites him and Daisy "coincidentally".

100

What industry did Arnold Rothstein corrupt?

The sports industry.

200

Who does Meyer Wolfsheim represent?

Arnold Rothstein

200

What does sporadic mean?

Infrequent

200

What theme does this quotation represent?

"Once I wrote down on the empty spaces of a time-table the names of those who came to Gatsby’s house that summer" (Fitzgerald 39).

Roaring 20s

200

What makes Nick trust Gatsby?

When Gatsby shows Nick the picture of him at Oxford.

200

What demographic was responsible for the rise of crime in the 20s?

Italians

300

What scares Gatsby away?

Tom Buchanan 

300

What is the definition and part of speech of denizen?

Regular/frequent visitor

POS: Noun

300

What theme does this quotation represent?

"I remembered, of course, that the World’s Series had been fixed in 1919, but if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as a thing that merely happened..." (Fitzgerald 73).

Roaring 20s

300

What did Gatsby do to Daisy the night of her wedding that made her cry uncontrollably?

He sent her a letter expressing his love.

300

Why did mafias form?

Out of fear and desperation among Italians in need of a job and money.