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1. Character History Setting and Purpose Who Said it? Literary Devices Themes 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

2. Question Column 1-100 A clam digger and salmon fisher from North Dakota. He knew women early, and they spoiled him.

3. Answer Column 1-100 Who is James Gatz or Jay Gatzby

4. Question Column 1-200 From Chicago; family is “Old money” so wedding is full of pomp and flair; purchases fiancé a $350,000 pearl necklace

5. Answer Column 1-200 Who is Tom Buchanan

6. Question Column 1-300 His friend Rosy Rosenthal was shot in his full belly 3 times walking out of the old Metropole at 4am; fixed the 1919 World’s Series

7. Answer Column 1-300 Who is Meyer Wolfsheim

8. Question Column 1-400 Married a man she thought was a “gentleman”. But he borrowed someone’s best suit to get married in. Has been living over a garage for 11 years.

9. Answer Column 1-400 Myrtle Wilson

10. Question Column 1-500 At age 18 already entertaining soldiers on a regular basis. Falls for one man who family does not approve of. Depressed about marrying the man her family accepted. Got drunk the day before her wedding because she’d received a letter from her former lover.

11. Answer Column 1-500 Daisy Buchanan

12. Question Column 2-100 Geographic location of Gatsby and Nick’s homes.

13. Answer Column 2-100 What is West Egg

14. Question Column 2-200 Each quote describes what setting? “men and girls came and went like moths”… “Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York”… “they conducted themselves according to the rules and behaviors of an amusement park” What is the author’s purpose for these descriptions?

15. Answer Column 2-200 What are Gatsby’s parties. What is to show the affluence of Gatsby and the carelessness of the wealthy.

16. Question Column 2-300 “About half way between West Egg and New York, the motor road hastily joins he railroad…so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land.” Later, a body is wrapped in a blanket and on a work table by the wall.

17. Answer Column 2-300 What is George Wilson’s garage in the Valley of Ashes.

18. Question Column 2-400 Nick is bullied into going here and here he gets drunk for the 2nd time in his life. This is where Tom breaks Myrtle’s nose.

19. Answer Column 2-400 What is Myrtle’s apartment in New York, which Tom pays for and uses as a rendezvous location for their affair.

20. Question Column 2-500 This was an important clue for Wilson. This object made him suspect that his wife was having an affair. He shows it to Michaelis.

21. Answer Column 2-500 What is “a small, expensive dog-leash, made of leather and braided silver. It was apparently new” (158).

22. Question Column 3-100For this category, you must identify the speaker and the person spoken to or about and explain the quote’s significance. “and I said, ‘God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!’”).

23. Answer Column 3-100 Speaker: George Wilson Speaking to: Michaelis about what he said to Myrtle while looking at Dr. T.J. Eckleberg’s eyes Significance: George is looking at the billboard. He thinks the eyes are the eyes of God. The eyes are a symbol of how God is always watching and sees everything. Also, this shows how Wilson is going crazy.

24. Question Column 3-200 “They were careless people…they smashed things and creatures and then retreated back into their money…” (179).

25. Answer Column 3-200 Speaker: Nick About: Tom and Daisy Significance: Demonstrates the carelessness and selfishness of the wealthy during the 1920s.

26. Question Column 3-300 “ ‘I raised him up out of nothing, right out of the gutter…Right off he did some work for a client of mine up to Albany. We were so thick like that in everything’ – he held up two bulbous fingers – ‘always together’ ” (171).

27. Answer Column 3-300 Speaker: Meyer Wolfsheim About: Gatsby Significance: shows us Gatsby’s history of illegal activities and that it is Wolfsheim who “made him” but Dan Cody who “educated” him.

28. Question Column 3-400 “Civilization is going to pieces…The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be – will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved” (13).

29. Answer Column 3-400 Speaker: Tom Buchanan About / to: Nick, Daisy and Jordan Significance: We learn that Tom is an elitist or white supremacist who thinks he’s the center of the universe. He likes to talk big, and he doesn’t come off as very smart since he considers such nonsense to be “scientific”

30. Question Column 3-500 “ ‘Jimmy sent me this picture. Look here’…‘Jimmy sent it to me. I think it’s a very pretty picture. It shows up well… He come out to see me two years ago and bought me the house I live in now.’” (172).

31. Answer Column 3-500 Speaker: Mr. Gatz (talking to Nick) About: Gatsby, his son Significance: Gatsby’s father has carried around the well worn, often admired picture of Gatsby’s house, which shows he was proud of Gatsby. We also learn that Gatsby, though in the past he didn’t have a good relationship with his family, since he became successful he had been generous with his family.

32. Question Column 4-100For each of the following quotes or questions, identify or explain the literary device Fitzgerald uses. “They were gone, without a word, snapped out, made accidental, isolated, like ghosts, even from our pity” (135).

33. Answer Column 4-100 What is a simile Author’s purpose: to compare Daisy and Gatsby’s relationship to something from the past, something that now only exists in people’s imagination (like ghosts).

34. Question Column 4-200 “This is the valley of ashes – a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke…Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track…and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up and impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight” (23).

35. Answer Column 4-200 What is imagery Author’s purpose: To create this image Fitzgerald uses simile, metaphor, color symbolism and diction to convey the dark desperate atmosphere of the valley of ashes – foreshadowing gloom.

36. Question Column 4-300 “He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn’t told him who owned the car…What if I did tell him? What fellow had it coming to him. He threw dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy's but he was a tough one. He ran over Myrtle like you’d run over a dog and never even stopped his car (178).

37. Answer Column 4-300 What is dramatic irony Context: Tom is speaking to Nick. The audience knows that Daisy, not Gatsby killed Myrtle, but Tom does not.

38. Question Column 4-400 “Involuntarily I glanced seaward – and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far way, that might have been the end of a dock.”

39. Answer Column 4-400 What is symbolism Context: Nick is observing Gatsby for the first time and Gatsby appears to be looking longingly and mysteriously at a green light, which we later learn is Daisy’s green light.

40. Question Column 4-500 “When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction – Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn” (2).

41. Answer Column 4-500 What is foreshadowing Context: Nick is presently going to tell us the story of his summer spent in NY/East and West Egg. He has returned home to the West and just desires life to go back to normal – foreshadowing that the story to follow is full of experiences in the East that were too immoral, emotional and full of things/activities he resents.

42. Question Column 5-100For each of the quotes, or passages that follow, identify the speakers, define the motif that is exhibited and come up with an appropriate theme statement given the context of the novel. “You’re a rotten driver,” I protested. “Either you ought to be more careful, or you oughtn’t to drive at all.” “I am careful.” “No, you’re not.” “Well other people are,” she said lightly. “What’s that got to do with it?” “They’ll keep out of my way,” she insisted. It takes two to make an accident” (58).

43. Answer Column 5-100 Speakers: Nick and Jordan Motif: carelessness Theme: answers will vary

44. Question Column 5-200 “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,” he suggested. “After that, my own rule is to let everything alone” (172).

45. Answer Column 5-200 Speaker: Meyer Wolfsheim Motif: friendship Theme: answers will vary

46. Question Column 5-300 “However glorious might be his future as Jay Gatsby, he was at present a penniless young man without a past…He might have despised himself, for he had certainly taken her under false pretenses…he had deliberately given Daisy a sense of security; he let her believe that he was a person to take care of her. As a matter of fact, he had no such facilities – he had no comfortable family standing behind him…” (149).

47. Answer Column 5-300 Speaker: Nick (about Gatsby) Motif: dishonesty Theme: answers will vary

48. Question Column 5-400 “In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago, with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before. He came down with a hundred people in four private cars, and hired a whole floor of the Seelbach Hotel, and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars” (76).

49. Answer Column 5-400 Speaker: Jordan Baker, talking to Nick. Motif: money Theme: answers will vary

50. Question Column 5-500 “He was so hard up he had to keep on wearing his uniform because he couldn’t buy some regular clothes. First time I saw him…he hadn’t eaten anything for a couple of days.” “Did you start him in business?” I inquired. “Start him! I made him” “Oh.” “I raised him up out of nothing, right out of the gutter.”