Freedom and responsibility

Question 1

What are the quotes for purple hibiscus? (5)

Answer 1

• “my raw tongue suffered
• “They are always so quiet,” he said, turning to Papa.”
• “I was not sure what my laughter sounded like.”
• Silence hangs over us, but … a different kind of silence, one that lets me breathe.
• “He expects perfection”

Question 2

What are the Tom Buchanan quotes? (2)

Answer 2

• “the white race will be . . . utterly submerged.”

- “Don’t believe everything you hear, Nick,” he advised me.

Question 3

What are the Daisy Buchanan quotes? (3)

Answer 3

• “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy”
• “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly.”
• “I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

Question 4

What is the Myrtle quote?

Answer 4

She feels imprisoned in her marriage to George, a downtrodden and uninspiring man who she mistakenly believed had good “breeding.”

Question 5

What is the George quote?

Answer 5

“He was his wife’s man and not his own.”

Question 6

What are the Nick Carraway quotes? (4)

Answer 6

• “For the first time I had to be responsible”
• “Nick judges the truth here an “unutterable fact.”
• Nick eventually points out, that wealth “imprisons” as well as “preserves”
• “He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that”

Question 7

What are the Gatsby quotes? (2)

Answer 7

• “he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes”
• “Was Daisy driving?’ ‘Yes,’ he said after a moment, “ but of course I’ll say’ I was”