THE GREAT GATSBY
Final Exam Review
The Great Gatsby Jeopardy
Rhetorical
Devices I
Rhetorical
Devices II
Characters
Plot Events
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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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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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What does Jay Gatsby symbolize?
America’s desire for wealth and opulence
America’s compulsive optimism
America’s immature romanticism
The decline of the American dream
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What does the green light symbolize?
Gatsby’s hope
Gatsby’s longing for Daisy
Gatsby’s American dream
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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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When 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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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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He’s inclined to reserve all judgments
and thinks Gatsby is both romantic and
gorgeous
Nick Carraway
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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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800
When 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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1000
When 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=boats
Nick comments on the fact that we can’t fully
disown ourselves from the past
The 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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What 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 Westernlike values
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When 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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