
Great Gatsby Test
Quiz by Baily Stevenson
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Match the color with the thing it symbolizes.Â
Daisy says the best thing a girl can be in this world is what?
What do the eyes of Dr. T.J. Echleburg symbolize?
What surprises the owl-eyed man at Gatsby's party?
The fact that everyone at the party begins to fight at the end and the singer begins to cry proves that what?
What does Mr. Wolfsheim tell Nick about Gatsby?
"There are only the pursued, the busy, and the tired" points out what about society?
What is significant about the weather when Daisy first comes to Nick's house?
What item does Gatsby almost break on Nickâs mantle?
What is a motif?
What is the American Dream?
What did Dan Cody do for Gatsby?
Gatsby wants nothing less from Daisy than to:
The extreme heat of the day symbolizes...
Gatsby tells Nick what is so special about Daisy's voice. What is it that Gatsby says about her voice?
What does Nick notice just before they leave the hotel?
The above realization symbolizes that...
Why did Myrtle run into the street?
Why does Wilson believe that Gatsby killed Myrtle?
Which of the following best summarizes the âparallel discoveryâ that Nick makes at the gas station?
Which inference about Tom and Daisy is best supported by the description of them at their kitchen table?
Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table with a plate of cold fried chicken between them and two bottles of ale. He was talking intently across the table at her and in his earnestness his hand had fallen upon and covered her own. Once in a while she looked up at him and nodded in agreement. They werenât happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the aleâand yet they werenât unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.
The word "conspiring" suggests that...
No one wants to come to Gatsby's funeral. This shows that...
Which of the following inferences best explains why Meyer Wolfsheim does not want to attend Gatsbyâs funeral?
How was Gatsby a representation of The American Dream?
âSo we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past," suggests what to the reader?
âItâll show you how Iâve gotten to feel aboutâthings. Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. âAll right,â I said, âIâm glad itâs a girl. And I hope sheâll be a foolâthatâs the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.â
What theme is the above text attempting to convey?
âWhat do you think?â he demanded impetuously.â About what?â He waved his hand toward the book-shelves.â About that. As a matter of fact you neednât bother to as-certain. I ascertained. Theyâre real.ââ The books?â He nodded.â Absolutely realâhave pages and everything. I thought theyâd be a nice durable cardboard. Matter of fact, theyâre absolutely real. Pages andâHere! Lemme show you.â Taking our skepticism for granted, he rushed to the book cases and returned with Volume One of the âStoddard Lectures. ââSee!â he cried triumphantly. âItâs a bona fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fellaâs a regular Belasco. Itâs a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop tooâdidnât cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect?â He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.
What theme is the above text attempting to convey?
He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: âI never loved you.â After she had obliterated three years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken. One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her houseâjust as if it were five years ago.â And she doesnât understand,â he said. âShe used to be able to understand. Weâd sit for hoursâââHe broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers. âI wouldnât ask too much of her,â I ventured. âYou canât repeat the past.ââ Canât repeat the past?â he cried incredulously. âWhy of course you can! âHe looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. âIâm going to fix everything just the way it was before,â he said, nodding determinedly. âSheâll see.â He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was....
What theme is the above text attempting to convey?
What paradox is Daisy described as?