Modified Gatsby Test

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A motif is ______.

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Nick is related to Daisy.

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Daisy tells Nick she hope that her daughter will be a 'fool'.

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The Valley of Ashes is _____.

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Doctor T.J. Eckleburg is _____.

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George Wilson is ______.

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Myrtle is _____.

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How do people end up at Gatsby's parties?

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Which are rumors about Gatsby?

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Owl Eyes is ______.

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Meyer Wolfsheim is ______.

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Gatsby bought his house ______.

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Which literary device is in the following quote? '“Your place looks like the World’s Fair,' I said."

“I talked with Miss Baker,” I said after a moment. “I’m going to call up Daisy tomorrow and invite her over here to tea.”
“Oh, that’s all right,” he said carelessly. “I don’t want to put you to any trouble.”
“What day would suit you?”
“What day would suit you?” he corrected me quickly. “I don’t want to put you to any trouble, you see.”
“How about the day after tomorrow?”
He considered for a moment. Then, with reluctance: “I want to get the grass cut,” he said.
We both looked down at the grass—there was a sharp line where my ragged lawn ended and the darker, well-kept expanse of his began. I suspected that he meant my grass.
“There’s another little thing,” he said uncertainly, and hesitated.
“Would you rather put it off for a few days?” I asked.
“Oh, it isn’t about that. At least—” He fumbled with a series of beginnings. “Why, I thought—why, look here, old sport, you don’t make much money, do you?”
“Not very much.”
This seemed to reassure him and he continued more confidently.
“I thought you didn’t, if you’ll pardon my—you see, I carry on a little business on the side, a sort of side line, you understand. And I thought that if you don’t make very much—You’re selling bonds, aren’t you, old sport?”
“Trying to.”
“Well, this would interest you. It wouldn’t take up much of your time and you might pick up a nice bit of money. It happens to be a rather confidential sort of thing.”
I realize now that under different circumstances that conversation might have been one of the crises of my life. But, because the offer was obviously and tactlessly for a service to be rendered, I had no choice except to cut him off there.
“I’ve got my hands full,” I said. “I’m much obliged but I couldn’t take on any more work.”

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Gatsby asked Jordan to ask Nick ______.

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After reading the above excerpt, explain what "the offer was obviously and tactlessly for a service to be rendered" means.

It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York—and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land. Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound. They are not perfect ovals—like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end—but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual wonder to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.
I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard—it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby’s mansion. Or, rather, as I didn’t know Mr. Gatsby, it was a mansion inhabited by a gentleman of that name. My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbour’s lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires—all for eighty dollars a month.
Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans. Daisy was my second cousin once removed, and I’d known Tom in college. And just after the war I spent two days with them in Chicago.
Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven—a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savours of anticlimax. His family were enormously wealthy—even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach—but now he’d left Chicago and come East in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance, he’d brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest. It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that.
Why they came East I don’t know. They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together. This was a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn’t believe it—I had no sight into Daisy’s heart, but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.
And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all. Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay. The lawn started at the beach and ran towards the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sundials and brick walks and burning gardens—finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run. The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold and wide open to the warm windy afternoon, and Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch.
He had changed since his New Haven years. Now he was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty, with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. It was a body capable of enormous leverage—a cruel body.

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Which literary device is used in the following quote? "the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound."

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What was Gatsby's mansion a copy of?

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Who lives where?

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What does the following quote mean, "Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven—a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savours of anticlimax."

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Tom and Daisy were from the East.

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Tom and Daisy always had specific reasons for places they went.

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The following is an example of which literary device? "It was a body capable of enormous leverage—a cruel body."

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Summarize in your own words what Nick means in the following passage.
"As I went over to say goodbye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart."

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Dan Cody was _____.

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Gatsby's real name is ______.

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Gatsby always drinks at his parites.

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Tom and Daisy's daughter was named _____.

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Match the character to the action.

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Nick		kills Myrtle
Jordan		tells Wilson where to find Gatsby
Meyer Wolfsheim		tells the reader the story
Daisy		dates Nick
Myrtle		has an affair with Tom
Wilson		kills Gatsby and himself
Tom		refused to come to the funeral

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What does the word hauteur mean in the following passage? "With the influence of the dress her personality had also undergone a change. The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur. Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment, and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her, until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smoky air."

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What does the word rajah mean in the following excerpt? “After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe—Paris, Venice, Rome—collecting jewels, chiefly rubies, hunting big game, painting a little, things for myself only, and trying to forget something very sad that had happened to me long ago.”

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What does bewilderment mean in the following excerpt? "As I went over to say goodbye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness."

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What do the words perturbe and oppressiveness mean in the following excertp? "Tom was evidently perturbed at Daisy’s running around alone, for on the following Saturday night he came with her to Gatsby’s party. Perhaps his presence gave the evening its peculiar quality of oppressiveness—it stands out in my memory from Gatsby’s other parties that summer."

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What does the word sauntered mean in the following excerpt? "Then they sauntered over to my house and sat on the steps for half an hour, while at her request I remained watchfully in the garden."

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Match the example to the correct term.

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
"The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea."		simile
"I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities, and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint..."		allusion
"When I came home to West Egg that night I was afraid for a moment that my house was on fire. Two o’clock and the whole corner of the peninsula was blazing with light, which fell unreal on the shrubbery and made thin elongating glints upon the roadside wires."		Imagery
"promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew."		personifcation
"Nobody wants to come to Gatsby's funeral, even though everyone wanted to come to his parties."		metaphor
"turbulent emotions possessed her"		oxymoron
"...Mr. Wolfsheim, forgetting the more sentimental atmosphere of the old Metropole, began to eat with ferocious delicacy."		irony

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Match the character to the archetype that best fits that character.

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Pammy		The Lover
Gatsby		The Orphan/Regular Guy or Gal
Nick		The Innocent
Myrtle		The Rebel
Tom		The Ruler

Short answer-write no more than one paragraph to complete your answer.

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Create a universal theme for The Great Gatsby. Make sure to include your big idea, at least 2 pieces of evidence and your universal theme in your answer.

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Explain the meaning behind the green light. Use at least one quote in your answer.

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Who do you think is responsible for Gatsby's death? Use evidence from the book to explain.

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Nick says, "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then treated back to their money or their vast carelssness or what it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made..." (Fitzgerald 187-188) Using this quote as evidence, explain what Nick means in your own words.

Essay- Write as much as you need to explain your answer include at least 2 quotes.

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Make sense of the 'eyes' motiff in Gatsby. Use at least 2 quotes from the book to explain your answer.

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A motif is ______.

Nick is related to Daisy.

Daisy tells Nick she hope that her daughter will be a 'fool'.

The Valley of Ashes is _____.

Doctor T.J. Eckleburg is _____.

George Wilson is ______.

Myrtle is _____.

How do people end up at Gatsby's parties?

Which are rumors about Gatsby?

Owl Eyes is ______.

Meyer Wolfsheim is ______.

Gatsby bought his house ______.

Which literary device is in the following quote? '“Your place looks like the World’s Fair,' I said."

Gatsby asked Jordan to ask Nick ______.

After reading the above excerpt, explain what "the offer was obviously and tactlessly for a service to be rendered" means.

Which literary device is used in the following quote? "the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound."

What was Gatsby's mansion a copy of?

Who lives where?

Tom and Daisy were from the East.

Tom and Daisy always had specific reasons for places they went.

The following is an example of which literary device? "It was a body capable of enormous leverage—a cruel body."

Dan Cody was _____.

Gatsby's real name is ______.

Gatsby always drinks at his parites.

Tom and Daisy's daughter was named _____.

Match the character to the action.

What does bewilderment mean in the following excerpt? "As I went over to say goodbye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness."

What does the word sauntered mean in the following excerpt? "Then they sauntered over to my house and sat on the steps for half an hour, while at her request I remained watchfully in the garden."

Match the example to the correct term.

Match the character to the archetype that best fits that character.

Create a universal theme for The Great Gatsby. Make sure to include your big idea, at least 2 pieces of evidence and your universal theme in your answer.

Explain the meaning behind the green light. Use at least one quote in your answer.

Who do you think is responsible for Gatsby's death? Use evidence from the book to explain.

Make sense of the 'eyes' motiff in Gatsby. Use at least 2 quotes from the book to explain your answer.

extra credit- Klipstringer was mentioned at least twice in the novel. List at least two page numbers where his name is mentioned for bonus points.