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English 11 | Pellauer
Name: _____________________
The Great Gatsby Questions – Chapter 4
Directions: Please answer the questions below. You do not need complete sentences,
but you do need to be thorough.
Finding Evidence: Complete the Chart
Find
Quoted Evidence from the Novel
List the names of East Egg East Egg People
West Egg People
and West Egg party-goers
1.
1.
2.
2.
3.
3.
4.
4.
5.
5.
Some of the details of
1.
Gatsby’s background that
2.
he tells to Nick
3.
4.
5.
Description of Meyer
Wolfsheim
Details about Meyer
Wolfsheim that tell us he is
a dangerous man
Why Gatsby bought his
house
Page #s
61-63
65-67
69
1.
1. 70
2.
2. 72
78
Answer These Questions
1. What is another rumor about Gatsby that we hear? (61)
2. What difference do you notice between the East Egg party-goers’ names and those
from West Egg? Remember that East Eggers are “old money” while West Eggers
are “new money.” (61-63)
3. What does Gatsby’s car say about his character? (64) If Gatsby were living right
now, what kind of car would he drive?
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4. Why does Nick think that Gatsby is not telling the truth about his background? (65)
5. What changes Nick’s mind to make him think that Gatsby may be telling the truth?
(67)
6. Does Gatsby’s relationship with Meyer Wolfsheim change your impression of
Gatsby? Why or why not?
7. Based on Jordan’s story, put the following events in order:
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Daisy threatens to “[tell] ’em all Daisy’s change’ her mine” (76)
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Daisy has a daughter in April
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Tom gets in a car accident with a maid from the Santa Barbara
Hotel
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Jordan tells Nick a story while they are having tea at the Plaza
Hotel
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Daisy becomes involved with Jay Gatsby
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Daisy marries Tom Buchanan
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Daisy hears the name Gatsby for the first time in years
8. Explain the following passage: “Then it had not been merely the stars to which he
had aspired on that June nigh. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the
womb of his purposeless splendor” (78). What does this passage mean?