This character sleeps with a married woman who isn't his wife.
Who is Tom?
100
The reason Gatsby fired all his servants.
What is they were all gossiping?
100
This object represents the American Dream.
What is the green light?
100
When a narrator gets drunk, as Nick does in chapter 2, it has this effect on how he's viewed by his audience.
What is less reliable?
100
Fitzgerald's first major novel.
What is This Side of Paradise?
200
This character had something to do with the 1918 World Series being rigged.
Who is Meyer Wolfsheim?
200
The shared past Nick and Gatsby have.
What is WWI (fought in the army)?
200
Nick's listing the various high-class attendants of Gatsby's parties ultimately serves to illustrate this theme.
What is the corruption of the rich?
200
When Jordan remarks that Myrtle might have the "decency not to call at dinner," this is an example of THIS literary device.
What is verbal irony?
300
This character owned a yacht and died a drunk. He also represents, in some way, the American Dream.
Who is Dan Cody?
300
Nick will get into this business when he moves East.
What is bonds?
300
Identify the scene in which "the incarnation was complete" and Gatsby's ideal became a reality.
When is the first time Gatsby and Daisy kiss?
300
Regarding Gatsby's character, this effect is produced by all the various rumors told about him before the audience actually meets him.
What is builds suspense?
300
Another name for the Roaring Twenties.
What is the "Lost Generation"?
400
This character was first seen "regarding the silver pepper of the stars."
Who is Gatsby?
400
The season during which Gatsby and Daisy first kissed.
What is autumn (fall)?
400
This character's death, portrayed in an awfully gruesome way, might serve to show the ugly results of trying to live like "you can't live forever" (or even trying to be upper class).
Who is Myrtle Wilson?
400
The device most evident when Myrtle, the low class adulteress, says her husband "wasn't fit to lick [her] shoe."
What is irony?
400
Gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
500
This character was a “blonde, spiritless man, aenemic, and faintly handsome”
Who is George Wilson?
500
Klipsringer rudely calls after Gatsby's death to ask that this be shipped to him.
What are his tennis shoes?
500
When a character is first seen looking at the sky in his yard, as though his "mind" was "romp[ing] with God," it pegs him as a __________.
What is a romantic idealist?
500
Given the way he writes Gatsby's death scene, Fitzgerald's style could be characterized in this way.
What is indirect, oblique, subtle?
500
Led to the disillusionment of millions in the early 20th century.