Trivia - The Great Gatsby and The Roaring Twenties
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How many copies of The Great Gatsby sold in its first year of publication?
2920,000
200
2,000
200,000
- Q1
How many copies of The Great Gatsby sold in its first year of publication?
20,000
200
2,000
200,000
30s - Q2
What is the setting of The Great Gatsby?
Yonkers
Long Island
Newark
Manhattan
30s - Q3
What year was The Great Gatsby first published?
1955
1925
1949
1939
30s - Q4
What is the color of the car that kills Myrtle Wilson?
Grey
Blue
Yellow
Black
30s - Q5
What is the occupation of the narrator, Nick Carraway, in the novel?
Writer
Soldier
Lawyer
Stockbroker
30s - Q6
What is Gatsby's main motivation for acquiring wealth and throwing extravagant parties?
To gain social status
To escape his criminal past
To win the heart of Daisy Buchanan
To seek revenge on Tom Buchanan
30s - Q7
Which character is being described?
"Over the ash heaps the giant eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg kept their vigil but I perceived, after a moment, that other eyes were regarding us with peculiar intensity from less than twenty feet away."
Myrtle Wilson
George Wilson
Jay Gatsby
Daisy Buchanan
30s - Q8
Which character is being described?
"He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. 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."
Nick Carraway
Tom Buchanan
Jay Gatsby
George Wilson
30s - Q9
Which character is being described?
"Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contained no facet or gleam of beauty but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering."
Mrs. McKee
Myrtle Wilson
Jordan Baker
Daisy Buchanan
30s - Q10
Which character is being described?
"Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward."
Jay Gatsby
George Wilson
Mr. McKee
Tom Buchanan
30s - Q11
Which character is being described?
"She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That was a way she had."
Jordan Baker
Daisy Buchanan
Mrs. McKee
Myrtle Wilson
30s - Q12
Identify the speaker:
“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
Meyer Wolfsheim
Nick Carraway
The Owl-Eyed Man
Klipspringer
30s - Q13
Identify the speaker:
“God knows what you’ve been doing...You may fool me, but you can’t fool God.”
George Wilson
Jay Gatsby
Tom Buchanan
Daisy Buchanan
30s - Q14
Identify the speaker:
“Civilization’s going to pieces...It’s up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.”
Catherine (Myrtle's sister)
Jordan Baker
Tom Buchanan
Meyer Wolfsheim
30s - Q15
Identify the speaker:
“All right...I’m glad it’s a girl...And I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
Nick Carraway
Daisy Buchanan
Myrtle Wilson
Jordan Baker
30s
