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This character is the first to reveal the history of Daisy and Gatsby's relationship to Nick.

Who is Jordan Baker?

100
This is the section of New York where Nick and Gatsby live.
What is West Egg?
100

What is Gatsby trying to achieve by moving to New York?

His American Dream

100
Gatsby uses this short phrase to address Nick.
What is old sport?
100

What does the green light symbolize in the play?

Gatsby's dream and hope to be with Daisy

200
This character is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson.
Who is Tom Buchanan?
200
This is the nickname of the area where you can find the billboard of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg.
What is the Valley of Ashes?
200

How are social classes seen in the novel?

They are permanent and unchangeable.

200

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”

What did Jordan Baker say?

200

What could the Valley of Ashes symbolize?

The destruction of society and the poorer class

300
This man was Gatsby's mentor; he left an inheritance to Gatsby that Gatsby was unable to claim.
Who is Dan Cody?
300

This is the place where Dan Cody and Gatsby met each other 

What is Lake Superior?

300

How do the 1920s play a part in the story?

With prohibition, bootlegging, jazz music, and party lifestyle

300

“Well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.”

What did Tom say?

300

It symbolizes the idea of God watching over the world in the novel

What is the billboard of T. J. Eckleburg?

400
This acquaintance of Gatsby's fixed the 1919 World Series.
Who is Meyer Wolfshiem?
400
This is the state where James Gatz was born.
What is North Dakota?
400

Because they do whatever they want, without any regard for how their actions will affect other people

Why Daisy and Tom are careless people?

400

I married him because I thought he was a gentleman

What did Myrtle say?

400
Gatsby uses this phrase to figuratively describe what Daisy's voice sounds like.
What is "her voice is full of money"?
500
This party-goer plays the piano and lives at Gatsby's house.
Who is Ewing Klipspringer?
500
This city is where Jordan and Daisy knew each other and grew up before moving to New York.
What is Louisville?
500

What did Nick mean when he said: "He's dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it,” in reality, “it was already behind him, somewhere."

That you can't repeat the past

500

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

What did Nick say?

500

What does the color blue symbolize, in the case of Tom?

Tom came from a wealthy and prominent family and could be described using the term ''blue blood.''