Chapter 7

Question 1

‘Daisy and…weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans.’

Answer 1

‘Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols, weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans.’

Question 2

‘She had told him that she loved him…

Answer 2

‘She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded.’

Question 3

‘He got up, his eyes still flashing between…

Answer 3

‘He got up, his eyes still flashing between Gatsby and his wife. No one moved.’

Question 4

“Her voice is…

Answer 4

“Her voice is full of money, he said suddenly’

Question 5

‘Then Tom’s voice…

Answer 5

‘Then Tom’s voice, incredulous and insulting:’

Question 6

“I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let…

Answer 6

“I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.’

Question 7

…’She’s never loved you. She loves me.”

Answer 7

“Your wife doesn’t love you,’ said Gatsby. ‘She’s never loved you. She loves me.”

Question 8

“Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself…

Answer 8

“Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.”

Question 9

‘as though she had never…

Answer 9

‘as though she had never, all along, intended doing anything at all.’

Question 10

…….’I love you now-isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.”

Answer 10

“Oh, you want too much!’ she cried to Gatsby. ‘I love you now-isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.”

Question 11

‘Gatsby’s eyes…

Answer 11

‘Gatsby’s eyes opened and closed.’

Question 12

“She’s not leaving me!’ Tom’s words suddenly leaned down over Gatsby…

Answer 12

“She’s not leaving me!’ Tom’s words suddenly leaned down over Gatsby. ‘Certainly not for a common swindler who’d have to steal the ring he put on her finger.”

Question 13

“I picked him for a bootlegger…

Answer 13

“I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him and I wasn’t far wrong.”

Question 14

“Go on. He won’t annoy you. I think he realizes that…

Answer 14

“Go on. He won’t annoy you. I think he realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.”

Question 15

‘….knelt in the road and mingled her thick, dark blood with the dust.

Answer 15

‘Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick, dark blood with the dust.

Question 16

‘her left breast was…

Answer 16

‘her left breast was swinging loose like a flap

Question 17

“I could think of nothing except the luminosity…

Answer 17

“I could think of nothing except the luminosity of his pink suit under the moon.

Question 18

‘there were two or three bright windows downstairs and the…

Answer 18

‘there were two or three bright windows downstairs and the pink glow from Daisy’s room on the second floor.’

Question 19

‘He was talking ………. and in his earnestness his hand had fallen upon and covered her own.…

Answer 19

‘He was talking intently across the table at her and in his earnestness his hand had fallen upon and covered her own. Once in a while she looked up at him and nodded in agreement.’

Question 20

‘There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anvbody would have said that …

Answer 20

‘There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anvbody would have said that they were conspiring together.

Question 21

‘So I walked away and left him…

Answer 21

‘So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight-watching over nothing.