gatsby chapter 7

Question 1

what has gatsby done and why

Answer 1

fired all his servants and hired new ones who won’t gossip

Question 2

what has daisy been doing

Answer 2

coming around most afternoons

Question 3

what is unique about this day

Answer 3

it is the hottest day

Question 4

what are daisy and jordan doing when nick and gastby enter

Answer 4

lying on the couch
wearing white dresses
listening to tom talk to his mistress on the phone

Question 5

what is daisy’s daughter’s name

Answer 5

pammy

Question 6

famous fitzgerald line said by daisy

Answer 6

What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?”

Question 7

what does daisy tell gatsby in publich

what does it really mean

Answer 7

“You always look so cool”

I love you

Question 8

what does the party decide to do

Answer 8

go to town

Question 9

what do gatsby and nick say about daisy’s voice

Answer 9

it is full of money

Question 10

who drives who and in what car

Answer 10

daisy and gatsby go in Tom’s car which is blue

Tom, nick, and jordan go in gatsby’s car which is yellow

Question 11

what has tom realized

Answer 11

1. his wife is having an affair with Gatsby.

2. Jordan and nick have known about the whole thing.

Question 12

what is up with wilson

Answer 12

Wilson, who now knows about his wife’s affair but doesn’t know it’s with Tom, reveals that he needs money because he and his wife are going to move out West.

Question 13

what does nick think about tom and george wilson’s discoveries

Answer 13

that both men (Tom and Wilson) have recently discovered their wives are cheating on them, and that such a discovery can make one physically ill.

Question 14

how is dr. T.J. Eckleburg’s eyes described as and who is it compared to

Answer 14

their vigil

mrytle’s as she is watching from an upstairs window

Question 15

what does tom realize after they leave wilson’s garage

Answer 15

that he is losing control of his wife and mistress

Question 16

where does the party end up

Answer 16

at a suite in the plaza hotel in an attempt to cool of f

Question 17

what does gatsby say about his time in oxford

Answer 17

he was there for only a few months

Question 18

what does tom say while in the suite

Answer 18

he calls out the affair and calls gatsby as “mr. nobody from nowhere”

Question 19

what does gatsby tell tom during the argument in the suite

Answer 19

daisy never loved you

Question 20

what does daisy say first about her love with tom

Answer 20

Daisy tells Tom he’s “revolting” and asks how she could possibly love him now. She has a really hard time saying she never loved him, but she does eventually, after much internal deliberation.

Question 21

does daisy admit to having loved tom

Answer 21

yes, but not anymore

Question 22

what does gatsby insist to tom

Answer 22

that daisy is leaving him

Question 23

what does tom reveal about gatsby

Answer 23

that he is a bootlegger

Question 24

how do they leave

Answer 24

daisy and gatsby in gatsby’s car

the others in tom’s car

Question 25

what does nick realize

Answer 25

that it’s his birthday. he is thirty

Question 26

what does nick say while they are driving back

Answer 26

So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”

Question 27

what does Michaelis, Wilson’s neighbor, reveal

Answer 27

that Myrtle came running out when she saw a yellow car. The car struck and killed her, and then sped off without stopping.

Question 28

what does tom call gastby

Answer 28

god-damned coward because he didn’t even stop

Question 29

why is gatsby waiting outside of tom’s house

Answer 29

to make sure tom doesn’t get violent with daisy

Question 30

what does gatsby say about the incident

Answer 30

that daisy was driving the car when they hit myrtle but gatsby will say that he was driving the car

Question 31

what does nick observe of tom and daisy

Answer 31

that they have reconciled

Question 32

what does nick say about gatsby watching over the house

Answer 32

watching over nothing