great gatsby chapter 2

Question 1

what is the land between eggs and new york called

Answer 1

valley of ashes

Question 2

what is on this land

Answer 2

a billboard hhat features the eyes of doctor T.J. Eckleburg

Question 3

what colors are the eyes

Answer 3

eyes are blue and the spectacles are yellow

Question 4

nick is traveling where with whom?

Answer 4

to the city with tom

Question 5

what does tom plan while doing in the city

Answer 5

stopping by to see his mistress

Question 6

the mistress is the wife of an auto mechanic named

Answer 6

george B. Wilson

Question 7

tom acts like a jerk toward who

Answer 7

the husband of his mistress

Question 8

George is blissfully

Answer 8

ignorant
so he doesn’t recognize his wife is cheating on him.
he believes that she goes to the city to see her sister

Question 9

what is the name of tom’s mistress

Answer 9

Myrtle Wilson

Question 10

what does myrtle want while on the train ride to the city

Answer 10

a puppy

Question 11

does tom grant myrtle’s request

Answer 11

yes

Question 12

what does nick try to do while on the train

Answer 12

jump ship

leave

Question 13

where do they go while in the city

Answer 13

an adulterous sex apartment to meet up with others

Question 14

who do they meet at the adulterous sex apartment

Answer 14

Mr. McKee and myrtle’s sister, Catherine

Question 15

what do they drink

Answer 15

tom’s whiskey

Question 16

nick gets drunk for the

Answer 16

second time in his life

Question 17

what happens when nick reveals that he lives in west egg

Answer 17

one drunken person talks about gatsby’s famous parties

Question 18

what does myrtle’s sister tell nick

Answer 18

that myrtle and tom both hate their spouses So, apparently Tom has told Myrtle some lies to string her along without having to divorce Daisy.

Question 19

what did myrtle do

Answer 19

marry below her social caste

Question 20

tom tells myrtle to stop doing what

Answer 20

saying daisy’s name

Question 21

what does Myrtle do after tom tells her to stop

Answer 21

says daisy, daisy, daisy

Question 22

what does tom do to myrtle

Answer 22

break her nose

Question 23

nick gets too drunk to remember what

Answer 23

how he got into bed

Question 24

where does mrytle live

Answer 24

on the edge of the valley of ashes

Question 25

what is the name of the apartment

Answer 25

morningside heights (tom keeps for his affair)

Question 26

catherine has bright ___ hair

Answer 26

red

Question 27

what does catherine tell nick about gatsby

Answer 27

that gatsby is the nephew or cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm, the ruler of Germany during world war I.

Question 28

nick ends up taking the ____ train back to long island

Answer 28

4 a.m.

Question 29

the McKee’s are a _____ couple

Answer 29

peculiar