Setting
Character
Gatsby
Historical connections
100

This is the section of New York where Nick and Gatsby live.

What is West Egg?

100

This character is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson.

Who is Tom Buchanan?

100

Gatsby uses this short phrase to address Nick.

What is old sport?

100

This is the time period of the novel.

What is the 1920s?

200

This is the area where you can find the billboard of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg.

What is The Valley of Ashes?

200

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

Who is Jordan Baker?

200

This is the colour of Gatbsy's car.

What is yellow?

200

This is the illegal sale and manufacturing of alcohol.

What is prohibition?
300

This is the section of New York associated with "Old Money."

What is East Egg?

300

This is Jay Gatsby's real name.

Who is James Gatz?

300

This is the way Gatsby makes his money.

What is bootlegging?

300

A period of death, destruction, and loss of innocence that occurred before the events in the novel.

What is WWI?

400

This is where the fight between Tom and Gatsby takes place.

What is New York?

400

his man was Gatsby's mentor; he left an inheritance to Gatsby that Gatsby was unable to claim.

Who is Dan Cody?

400

This object is symbolic of Gatsby's longing and yearning for Daisy.

What is the green light?

400

This is how most "new money" people in the US established their wealth.

What is the stock market?

500

How much Nick pays to rent his house in West Egg.

What is 80 dollars a month?

500

This acquaintance of Gatsby's fixed the 1919 World Series.

Who is Meyer Wolfshiem?

500
Gatsby insists to Nick that this can be repeated.

What is the past?

500

This was originally about discovery, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness. It was the belief that hard work could lead one from rags to riches.

What is the American Dream?