the great gatsby test (4/4/19)

Question 1

Who refuses to leave her husband for Gatsby?

Answer 1

Daisy

Question 2

Thinks that the books at Gatsby’s are fake.

Answer 2

Nick

Question 3

Moves to west egg.

Answer 3

Nick

Question 4

Runs over Myrtle with a car.

Answer 4

Daisy

Question 5

Claims to have run over Myrtle.

Answer 5

Gatsby

Question 6

Dies in a pool.

Answer 6

Gatsby

Question 7

Has lavish parties.

Answer 7

Gatsby

Question 8

Cries over a collection of shirts.

Answer 8

Daisy

Question 9

Has an affair with Myrtle.

Answer 9

Tom

Question 10

Invites Gatsby to dinner to embarrass him.

Answer 10

The Slones

Question 11

Who flaunts their affair.

Answer 11

Daisy

Question 12

Who arranges Gatsby’s funeral?

Answer 12

Nick

Question 13

Angers Tom by repeating Daisy’s name.

Answer 13

Myrtle

Question 14

Narrates the novel.

Answer 14

Nick

Question 15

Believes Gatsby killed Myrtle.

Answer 15

Mr. Wilson

Question 16

Who Fitzgerald married?

Answer 16

Zelda

Question 17

What does Nick call Gatsby that reflects Gatsby’s connection to time?

Answer 17

Old Sport

Question 18

Give me two examples of things that the green light is symbolic for.

Answer 18

Daisy and the American Dream

Question 19

How is it possible for Daisy to be everything to Gatsby and nothing at the same time?

Answer 19

She is everything that Gatsby wants as a wife (rich, popular) but she doesn’t want to leave her family or social status of having old money for someone with new money

Question 20

How is Gatsby a man of the past?

Answer 20

He acts like his entire purpose in life is to get Daisy (a girl he met in college) to fall in love with him and leave Tom for him

Question 21

What does Fitzgerald believe is no longer obtainable in America?

Answer 21

The American Dream of being rich and having a high social status

Question 22

How is “Ain’t We Got Fun” in this story ironic?

Answer 22

It implies a carefree life and it’s a contrast with the oppressiveness of society

Question 23

What is significant about Dan Cody’s story?

Answer 23

It foreshadows Gatsby’s life and exactly how it’s going to be

Question 24

Gatsby’s death happens on the 1st day of Autumn and it is getting cold; how is swimming typical Gatsby behavior?

Answer 24

The beginning of Autumn is the end of summer. Summer represents the fantasy that Gatsby lives in with Daisy and now that it’s ending, the fantasy has to end

Question 25

Paradies the Jazz age.

Answer 25

Gatsby’s parties

Question 26

The ruin of America.

Answer 26

Gatsby’s death

Question 27

Danger in luxury.

Answer 27

Cars

Question 28

The end of the dream.

Answer 28

The end of summer and the beginning of fall

Question 29

Foreshadows Gatsby’s life.

Answer 29

Dan Cody

Question 30

The post war vision of America.

Answer 30

The valley of ashes

Question 31

A heartless, uninvolved God.

Answer 31

The build board

Question 32

Inability to control time.

Answer 32

He breaks the clock at Nicks

Question 33

Gatsby’s lonely funeral.

Answer 33

Crossing the bridge (white guy driving black people and the hearse)

Question 34

An unattainable goal.

Answer 34

The green light

Question 35

Explain Gatsby as the “American dream”.

Answer 35

Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald makes Gatsby the symbol for the “American dream”. The idea of Gatsby having it all and being what everyone else wants to be starts with his childhood. It’s the concept of the poor child becoming a self-made man. As he becomes a man, he is still poor. The janitorial job shows that he is sensitive to sophistication and elegance. It also proves how important class is to him. From chapter 1 to chapter 9, he is constantly trying to perfect himself. When we learn more about Gatsby’s past, we find out that he changed his name from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby- this is all because of how bad he wants to reinvent and perfect himself to meet the right class he has aspired to be since a young boy.