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gatsby--semester 2 exam Flashcards

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1
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setting place

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long island, new york

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setting time

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1920

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place that symbolized old money

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east egg

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place that symbolized new money

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west egg

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one person that symbolized old money

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tom buchanan

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person who symbolized new money

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jay gatsby

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person why symbolized middle class

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nick carrawway

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wasteland

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valley of ashes

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dishonest golfer

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jordan baker

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person who doesn’t judge others

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nick

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11
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person known for strength

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tom

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12
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known for smile

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gatsby

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known for voice

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daisy buchanan

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14
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who is compared to belasco

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gatsby

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person who thinks his car ran out of gas

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owl eyed man

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16
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woman who carries her surplus flesh sensuously

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mrytle wilson

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17
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tell em all daisy’s changed her mind

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daisy

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18
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tyring to forget something very sad taht had happened to me a long time ago

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gatsby

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he borrowed sombody’s best suit to get marired in and never even told me about it

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george wilson

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i told that boy about the ice…these people- you have to keep after them all the time

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tom

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21
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hes the man who fixe the world series back in 1919

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mr wolfsheim

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and i hope she’ll be a fool thats the best thing a girl can be in this world a beautfiul little fool

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daisy

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i am one of the few honest people that i have ever knonw

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nick

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24
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gatsby’s real name

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james gatz

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signifigance of the green light

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symbolizes daisy to gatsby

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26
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who goes from rags to riches

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jay gatsby

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27
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gatsby makes his money by

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bootlegging

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28
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tom emobdies ______- and bulges with ____

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power

muscles

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29
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nick is from the _____.

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middle west

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30
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myrtle is in the lower__

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class

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31
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the wilsons represent the _____ of the american dream to achieve

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failure

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32
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to gatsby, the future means repeating the

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past

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33
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where did fitzgerald go to college

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princeton

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34
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daisy’s voice was compared to what first lady

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jacky o nasses kennedy

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35
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tom is a racist who is worried about the comming

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victory of the black people

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36
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gatsby is a hero because he bleieves in romance and is a true example of honor among thieves, according to

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nick

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37
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daisiy is in it ofr the big ____, not for love and romance

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money

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38
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max perkins was fitzgerald’s ___

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editor

39
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fitzgerald died thinking that the novel was not in

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publication

40
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other names for the title of the novel

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tralmacio

on the road to west egg

41
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the readers don’t know what _______ knew

A

tom

42
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america is a country that is a loss of

A

innoncence

43
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this book is an elegy to the

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american dream

44
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noone can be ____ and ____ for ever

A

rich and happy

45
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and so we beat on, boats ____ the current, borne back ceaselessly into the ____

A

against

past

46
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how and where did scott and zelda meet

A

country club dance in montgomery alabama

47
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what man is a famous ancestor of scott

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francis scott key

48
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what novel established scott’s reputation as a writer

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this side of paradise

49
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first flapper

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zelda sayer

50
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expatriates or the

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lost generation

51
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members of the lost generation

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getrude stein
ernest hemingway
gerald and sam murphy

52
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what destroyed scott and zelda’s marriage

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alcohol

53
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fitzgerald constantly

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moved

54
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what made zelda have a mental breakdwon

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practicing ballet 8 hours a day

55
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what did scott do to pay for hospital bill

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screenwriter in hollywood

56
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what was beloved infidel about

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detailed the romance between sheila and scott

57
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how did fitzgerald die

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collapsed of a heart atack

58
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how did zelda die

A

hopsital fire

59
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3 novels by scott

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this side of paradise
great gatsby
the beatufil and damned

60
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word that describes nick

A

punctilious

61
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three things that symbolize materialism

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gatsby’s house
otm’s polo team
gatsbys car

62
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waht does the thin beard of ivy represents

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the self image of gatsby has not matured

63
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play producer who pleased his audiences like gatsby does at his parties

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belasco

64
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person who got the money that gatsby should have inherited

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ella kay

65
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represents the american work ethic

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benjamin franklin

66
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repressents industrial america

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george wilson

67
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compared to arose

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daisy

68
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religious symbo lassociated with daisy

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holy grail

69
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vulgar upstart in legend that gatsby is compared to

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timalcio

70
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the original golden girl

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ginevra king

71
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before and after that goes from dazzling to sad

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alcohol

72
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reaons that fitzgerlads book lost their appeal

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fame left in the 1920s.

73
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word used to describe staying up all night to keep watch

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vigil

74
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three money colors

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gold, silver, pink

75
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daisy’s first worsd

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im p-parlyzed with happiness

76
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then wear the ___ hat if that will move her

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gold

77
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who says “can’t repeat the past, why of course you can

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gatsby

78
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he was a product of every rush for metal since 75

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dan cody

79
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she’s a catholic and doesn’t believe in divorce

she?

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daisy

80
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what i called up about wa a pair of shoes that i left there

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klipspringer

81
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i told her that she might fool me but she can’t fool God

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george

82
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i am inclined to reserve all judgmenets

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nick

83
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he’s so dumb that he dones’t know he’s alive

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geogrge

84
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i thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe

I, he ?

A

i-mrytle

he- goerge

85
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let us learn to show out friendhsip for a man when he is alive-after taht, my own rule is to let everything alone

A

meyer wolfsheim

86
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i wanted to leave things in order and not just trust that obliging and indifferent sea to sweep my refuse away

A

nick

87
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They’re a _____ crowd, you’re worth the whole ___ bunch put together

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rotten

damn

88
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i was staring at an elegant young rough neck whose elaborate formality…

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speaker-nick

89
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gatsby, waiting on a phone call from ____, wouldn’t leave

A

daisy

90
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the hottest day is also on nick’s

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30 birthday

91
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nick is from the

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midwest

92
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klipspringer was called the

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boarder

93
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mrytle’s sister

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catherine

94
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novel that depicted a happy couple’s lives destroyed by drinking

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the beautiful and damned

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