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THE GREAT GATSBY
Final Exam Review
The Great Gatsby Jeopardy
Rhetorical
Devices I
Rhetorical Devices II
Characters Plot Events Surprise
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200
Name three possible themes for the novel.
The decline of the American dream
Illusion vs. reality
Social classes
Wealth and success
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200
The relationship between Tom and Daisy can best be represented by which theme?
Illusion vs. Reality Betrayal
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200
He is a business associate of Jay Gatsby who supposedly fixed the 1919 World Series.
Meyer Wolfsheim
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200
The novel takes place during which decade in the United States?
1920s“The Jazz Age” “The Roaring 20s”
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200
From which point of view is the novel told?
First and third person
Nick uses “I” and also narrates the story in 3rd, using he/she, it, they, etc.
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400
What does Jay Gatsby symbolize?
America’s desire for wealth and opulenceAmerica’s compulsive optimism America’s immature romanticismThe decline of the American dream
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400What does the green light symbolize?
Gatsby’s hope
Gatsby’s longing for Daisy
Gatsby’s American dream
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400
This character is a supercilious East Egger who went to school with Nick.
Tom Buchanan
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400
Gatsby buys his mansion and has parties in order to
Turn back time and win Daisy back
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400
Fitzgerald, the author, had this in common with the protagonist, Jay Gatsby
They both tried to buy a woman’s love
(Fitzgerald with Zelda Sayre)
(Gatsby with Daisy)
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600When Gatsby nervously knocks over the
clock on the mantel before meeting Daisy, what might this symbolize?
A hope/attempt to turn back time
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600
When Nick says, “…his (Gatsby’s) career as Trimalchio was over,” which rhetorical device does this represent?
An allusion to a character, Trimalchio, in Roman literature who lead a similar lifestyle to Gatsby, coming into new money and having lavish parties.
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600He’s inclined to reserve all judgments
and thinks Gatsby is both romantic and gorgeous
Nick Carraway
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600
What is the novel’s setting?
Long Island (East and West Egg)
New York City
1920s
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600
What might West Egg symbolize?
Garishness and flamboyance
Ostentatious behavior
Grandiose and gaudiness
New Money
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800When Nick describes the weather in chapter
7 as, “the warmest of the summer,” which rhetorical device does this represent?
Foreshadowing of the conflict between Gatsby and Nick about the affair
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800
Meyer Wolfsheim’s cuff links, made of human molars, symbolize
Ruthlessness and deceptiveness
He will do what it takes to get what he wants (including killing)
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800
A poor, discontented garage owner who lives in the valley of the ashes—sees eyes of Dr. Eckleburg as God
George Wilson
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800
Which colors does Gatsby wear to his reunion with Daisy? What do these symbolize?
He wears white, gold, and silver, symbolizing his wealth and prosperity—he hopes to show Daisy that he’s wealthy to win her back
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800
When Nick imagines Gatsby’s final thoughts while floating in the pool before he died, Nick narrates, “…he paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky…as he found out what a grotesque thing a rose is…” What rhetorical device does this represent?
– A metaphor, meaning Daisy was a rose not worthy of Gatsby’s dream and obsession
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1000
What time of year does Gatsby die? Why is this symbolic?
He asks his servant not to drain the pool yet because he doesn’t want time to pass and winter to come. He dies in the fall, which is symbolic of a time when things die off before winter.
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1000When Nick says, “so we beat on, boats against the
current, borne back ceaselessly into the past,” which rhetorical device does this represent? What does he mean?
It’s a metaphor; we=boatsNick comments on the fact that we can’t fully disown
ourselves from the pastThe past haunts Gatsby and is part of the reason he
can’t achieve his dream of having Daisy
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1000
A professional golfer who is seemingly bored with East Egg life
Jordan Baker
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1000What does Nick say he has in common with
Tom, Daisy, Gatsby and Jordan? How does this relate to why he’s leaving the East?
He says, “This has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.”
They can’t survive in a corrupt East with no Western-like values
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1000When Nick says, “She was the first ‘nice’ girl he had
ever known. In various unrevealed capacities he had come in contact with such people but always with indiscernible barbed wire between,” which rhetorical device does this represent? What does he mean?
• There was a metaphorical dividing “wire” between Gatsby and others of a higher/old rich social class, including Daisy.
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