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Gatsby
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100
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

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

Who is Jay Gatsby?

100
Gatsby uses this short phrase to address Nick.
What is old sport?
100
Gatsby uses this phrase to figuratively describe what Daisy's voice sounds like.
What is "her voice is full of money"?
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

“I did love him once – but I loved you too.”

Who is Daisy Buchanan

200
This man was Gatsby's mentor; he left an inheritance to Gatsby that Gatsby was unable to claim.
Who is Dan Cody?
200
What could the Valley of Ashes symbolize?
What is the destruction of society and the poorer class?
300
Poor boy from South Dakota. (real name)
Who is James Gatz?
300
This is the section of New York associated with "Old Money."
What is East Egg?
300

“...I’m one of those trusting fellas and I don’t think harm to nobody, but when I get to know a thing, I know it.”

Who is George Wilson?

300

Kills Gatsby to avenge the murder of his wife.

Who is George Wilson?

300

What 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

“When a man gets killed I never like to get mixed up in any way. I keep out.”

Who is Meyer Wolfsheim?

400

Gatsby served in Europe during this war.

What is WWI?

400

What does the green light symbolize in the novel?

What is Gatsby's dream and hope to be with Daisy?

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

“A national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors anticlimax.”

Who is Nick? 

500
This is what Gatsby wants Daisy to tell everyone in the tense scene at the hotel in Chapter VII.
What is that she never loved Tom?
500

How does the color yellow's meaning as a symbol change in the book?

What is the color goes from representing wealth and and all things "golden" to representing death and destruction. Gatsby's yellow car is called "the death car"?