English U1 Quotes

Question 1

Gatsby’s smile

Answer 1

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it

Question 2

Gatsby’s description

Answer 2

an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again

Question 3

Gatsby’s morality with Daisy

Answer 3

He had deliberately given Daisy a sense of security; he let her believe that he was a person from much the same strata as her

Question 4

Gatsby’s value

Answer 4

You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together

Question 5

Gatsby’s origins

Answer 5

shiftless and unsuccessful farm people

Question 6

Gatsby’s feelings for Daisy

Answer 6

romantically hopeless

Question 7

Unreliable narration on Gatsby

Answer 7

represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn

there was something gorgeous about him

Question 8

Unreliable narration on judgement

Answer 8

I’m inclined to reserve all judgements

Question 9

Unreliable narration on Myrtle

Answer 9

contained no facet or gleam of beauty

Question 10

Symbolism of Doctor TJ Eckleburg

Answer 10

persistent stare

Question 11

Tom’s features

Answer 11

Arrogant eyes
sturdy physical egotism

Question 12

Daisy’s insincerity

Answer 12

felt the basic insincerity of what she had said

Question 13

Daisy’s voice

Answer 13

is full of money

Question 14

The rich world

Answer 14

she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished society to which she and Tom belonged

Question 15

Nick on honesty/morality

Answer 15

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known

Question 16

Tom’s past

Answer 16

such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anticlimax

Question 17

Gatsby’s past

Answer 17

was a penniless young man without a past

Question 18

Gatsby’s cost

Answer 18

paid a high price for living too long with a single dream

Question 19

Gatsby’s business morality

Answer 19

did a little business on the side