The Great Gatsby Test

Question 1

What is a symbol of a post war vision of America?

Answer 1

The valley to New York is very unnatural and hellish in its decay

Question 2

What is a symbol of a post war vision of America?

Answer 2

The valley of ashes

Question 3

What is a symbol for the inability to control time?

Answer 3

clock being broken

Question 4

What is a symbol for the inability to control time?

Answer 4

Gatsby breaks the clock

Question 5

What parody’s the jazz age?

Answer 5

the party

Question 6

What is symbolic for an unattainable goal?

Answer 6

The green light

Question 7

What symbolizes the end of the dream the end of Gatsby’s life?

Answer 7

The end of summer

Question 8

What is symbolic for dangers and luxury?

Answer 8

the cars

Question 9

Who runs over Myrtle with a car?

Answer 9

Daisy

Question 10

What parody’s the jazz age?

Answer 10

the lavish parties

Question 11

Who dies in a pool?

Answer 11

Gatsby

Question 12

Who throws lavish parties?

Answer 12

Gatsby

Question 13

Who cries over shirts?

Answer 13

Daisy

Question 14

Who is having an affair with Myrtle?

Answer 14

Tom

Question 15

Who believes Gatsby killed Myrtle?

Answer 15

Wilson

Question 16

Who invites Gatsby to dinner in order to embarrass him?

Answer 16

Tom

Question 17

Who flaunts her affair to her husband?

Answer 17

Daisy

Question 18

Who arranges Gatsby’s funeral?

Answer 18

Nick

Question 19

Who narrates the novel?

Answer 19

Nick

Question 20

Who angers Tom by repeating Daisy’s name?

Answer 20

Myrtle

Question 21

What term did Fitzgerald coin?

Answer 21

“The Jazz Age”

Question 22

Who did Fitzgerald marry?

Answer 22

Zelda Sayre

Question 23

What is significant of the telling of Dan Cody’s story?

Answer 23

that he is just another Gatsby

Question 24

How is Gatsby a man of the past?

Answer 24

He wants to recapture the past

Question 25

According to Fitzgerald, what is no longer possible to America?

Answer 25

progress and equality

Question 26

How is the use of the song "Ain't We Got Fun" ironic?

Answer 26

because it is about money and it shows the doubt that Gatsby will be able to keep Daisy

Question 27

****Explain Gatsby as the American Dream?(full paragraph)

Answer 27

"The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald is said to be like the American Dream. The American Dream and its attainability is the overwhelming theme of "The Great Gatsby". The book is set up in a post WWI environment which sets up the reader to see numerous disappointments in mankind. "The Great Gatsby" has 5 themes: decay, honesty, class, religion, and hope. Decay is the most prominent in "The Valley of Ashes" where everything seems barren. This theme is very close to the American Dream. Honesty in the world of Gatsby and what is honest, dishonest, right, and wrong is all related to class. Class is a huge part of "The Great Gatsby" and plays a major role. The old money is better than new money and can not be compared by status. The book and characters are obsessed with class and privilege. Religion has several references and the lack of morality is associated with the time period. Lastly is hope. Hope is used a lot in this book because every character represented in this novel has some sort of hope within them and some even lose their hope through out the book. All in all, "The Great Gatsby" is a lot like the American Dream and can be compared by a lot to the American Dream. You just have to dig down into to realize how similar it is.

Question 28

Give 2 examples of things the green light is symbolic for.

Answer 28

Daisy and the American Dream

Question 29

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

Answer 29

over whelmed clock?

Question 30

What is significant of the telling of Dan Cody's story?

Answer 30

that he is like another Gatsby

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Because she is ALL Gatsby wants, she can NEVER be anything to him. She can’t lower herself to be with him. He would be social suicide

Question 32

How is Gatsby a man of the past?

Answer 32

He wants to live in the past or at least freeze time

Question 33

Gatsby's death happens on the first day of autumn; how is swimming typical Gatsby behavior?

Answer 33

Swimming is a defiance of time and Gatsby is all about freezing time or going back in time

Question 34

How is the use of the song "Ain't We Got Fun" ironic?

Answer 34

Daisy rejected Gatsby originally because of his lack of wealth. “ No money, oh but honey Ain’t we got fun”