The Great Gatsby Quotes

Question 1

“Come on Daisy… I’ll take you in this circus wagon.”

Answer 1

Tom

Question 2

“[Violently] civilisation’s gone to pieces.”

Answer 2

Tom

Question 3

“The white race will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.”

Answer 3

Tom

Question 4

“The less fashionable of the two.”

Answer 4

Nick - describing West Egg.

Question 5

“A colossal affair.”

Answer 5

Nick - describing Gatsby’s house.

Question 6

“Her voice glowing and singing.”

Answer 6

Nick - describing Daisy.

Question 7

“Then suddenly she threw her napkin on the table…”

Answer 7

Nick - describing Daisy.

Question 8

“Both in white, their dresses rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back after a short flight around the house.”

Answer 8

Nick - describing Daisy and Jordan.

Question 9

“An absurd, charming little laugh.”

Answer 9

Nick - describing Daisy.

Question 10

“… A brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen…”

Answer 10

Daisy - describing Tom.

Question 11

“She told me it was a girl and so I turned my head around and wept.”

Answer 11

Daisy

Question 12

“I hope she’ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

Answer 12

Daisy

Question 13

“Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.”

Answer 13

Nick - describing Tom striking Myrtle.

Question 14

“[Shouting] Daisy, Daisy, Daisy… I’ll say it whenever I want to.”

Answer 14

Myrtle

Question 15

“… While happy, vacuous bursts of laughter rose towards the summer sky.”

Answer 15

Tom - describing one of Gatsby’s parties.

Question 16

“… It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it , that you may come across four or five times in life.”

Answer 16

Nick - describing Gatsby’s smile.”

Question 17

“… With an irresistible prejudice in your favour.”

Answer 17

Nick - describing Gatsby’s smile.

Question 18

“… Precisely at that point it vanished.”

Answer 18

Nick - describing Gatsby’s smile.

Question 19

“I’d got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care.”

Answer 19

Nick - describing Gatsby.

Question 20

“… and half an hour later, the pearls were around her neck and the incident was over… [the] next day she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver.”

Answer 20

Jordan - talking about Daisy.

Question 21

“They moved with a fast crowd, all of them young and rich and wild.”

Answer 21

Jordan - talking about the Buchanan’s, specifically Daisy.

Question 22

“You can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don’t see or care.”

Answer 22

Jordan

Question 23

“… perhaps Daisy never went in for armour at all, and yet there’s something in that voice of hers…”

Answer 23

Jordan - talking about Daisy’s persona in her social circles.

Question 24

He’s afraid, he’s waited so long.”

Answer 24

Jordan - talking about Gatsby meeting Daisy again.

Question 25

“Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.”

Answer 25

Jordan - talking about Gatsby.

Question 26

“… then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night.”

Answer 26

Jordan - talking about Gatsby.

Question 27

“He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.”

Answer 27

Jordan - talking about Gatsby.

Question 28

“Who is Tom? She asked innocently.”

Answer 28

Daisy - when Nick invited her to tea.