Great Gatsby

Question 1

Turning Pt. TCQA-1

Answer 1

I’ll be damned if I see how you got within a mile of her unless you brought the groceries to the back door.

Question 2

Turning Pt. TCQA-2

Answer 2

“Oh, you want too much!” she cried to Gatsby. “I love you now – isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.” She began to sob helplessly. “I did love him once – but I loved you too.”

Question 3

Turning Pt. TCQA-3

Answer 3

But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away

Question 4

Setting TCQA-1

Answer 4

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others – poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner – young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

Question 5

Setting TCQA-2

Answer 5

Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out

Question 6

Setting TCQA-3

Answer 6

“This is a valley of ashes – a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke

Question 7

Symbolism TCQA-1

Answer 7

a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been at the end of a dock.

Question 8

Symbolism TCQA-2

Answer 8

Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out

Question 9

Symbolism TCQA-3

Answer 9

“This is a valley of ashes – a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke