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Who Said It?
Who Am I Describing?
True or False 1
True or False 2
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100
“Daisy! Daisy! Daisy! I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai--”
Myrtle Wilson
100
“There was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon golf courses on clean, crisp mornings”
Jordan Baker (said by Nick)
100
Daisy hopes her daughter will be smarter than she was.
False; "I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool --- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." pg.17
100
It is Nick who reunites Daisy and Gatsby.
True; "...I'm going to call up Daisy to-morrow and invite her over here to tea." pg 82
100
The Great Gatsby takes place during the ...
1920s
200
“Can’t repeat the past?... Why of course you can!”
Gatsby
200
“He’s a gambler... He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919.”
Wolfsheim (said by Gatsby)
200
East Egg represents “old money” in the novel.
True; pg.5
200
Daisy never reveals her part in Myrtle’s death.
True; "...He ran over Myrtle like you'd run over a dog and never even stopped his car." pg 178
200
The “eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg” are symbolic of
God / Truth
300
“It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such- such beautiful shirts before.”
Daisy Buchanan
300
“...there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.”
Gatsby (said by Nick)
300
George Wilson owns an auto repair shop.
True; "...the third was a garage ---Repairs. George B. Wilson. Cars bought and sold. --- and I followed Tom inside" pg.25
300
The billboard with the Eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg is in East Egg.
False; "But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg." pg 23
300
Daisy’s hometown where she meets Jay Gatsby is
Louisville, KY
400
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
Nick Carraway
400
“Her voice is full of money.”
Daisy (said by Gatsby)
400
Nick sells expensive automobiles.
False; "I'm a bond man." - Nick pg.10
400
Gatsby is murdered in his own swimming pool.
True; "Thre was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other...The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of transit, a thin red circle in the water." pg 162
400
The only character who knows the whole truth about the accident and all of the complex relationships involved is
Nick
500
“Civilization’s going to pieces.”
Tom Buchanan
500
“I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person. I thought it was your secret pride”
Nick (said by Jordan Baker)
500
Jordan has been known to move her golf ball in tournaments.
True; "At her first big golf tournament there was a row that nearly reached the newspapers -- a suggestion that she had moved her ball from a bad lie in the semi-final round." pg 57
500
Tom’s affair with Myrtle is the first time he has been unfaithful to Daisy.
False; "That was in August. A week later after I left Santa Barbara Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road on night, and ripped the front wheel off his car. The girl who was with him got into the paper,too, because her arm was broken..." pg 77
500
What word does Nick use to describe Daisy and Tom at the end of the novel?
Careless