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TEST - Gatsby (+ Modernism)

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50 questions
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Which of the following descriptions best captures the key concepts of Modernism?

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Which of the following causes of Modernism created "generational trauma"?

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Which of the following was NOT a major contributor to the development of Modernism?

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In a letter to Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein famously coined the term "_________" in response to this generational trauma...

"All of you young people... you are all a ________"

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The modern "attitude" of modernism could be described as all of the following EXCEPT

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The belief/mindset that held the most sway culturally over this Modern period:

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Which Gatsby quote below best exemplifies that belief/mindset of the previous question?

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During this movement, which of the following literary styles was developed in which the author gave direct treatment of the "thing" as itself, and focused on showing the reader the thing instead of telling the reader what to think about this thing?

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During this movement, which of the following literary styles was developed in which the author poured a continuous flow of narrative free verse without censoring out erroneous details or controlling their style formally.

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The "individual" in Modern literature is treated in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

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Match the character to the analytical description below:

Draggable itemCorresponding Item
Meyer Wolfsheim
the "self-made" man; the Romantic; the "valorized" hero
Daisy Buchanan
unreliable narrator; always "within and without;" stands in for Fitzgerald himself
Myrtle Wilson
old money; obsessed with holding onto tradition and racist philosophies of white supremacy that preserve his power
George Wilson
old money; representative of southern gentility; her voice is full of money
Tom Buchanan
"the golfer"; representative of the "new" woman, more independent and "free", including morally (cheating/sexually)
Jay Gatsby
working class, taken advantage of by the wealthy; a "true" believer in God but lost to vengeance
Jordan Baker
"the other woman," representative for those who are used and discarded by people who would take advantage of her for her body; quite literally torn two ways
Nick Carraway
"the man who fixed the 1919 world series"; representative of the shady "underworld" that pervades this decade
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Which Gatsby character symbolizes the 1920s popular conception of God?

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Nick claims he "reserves all judgements" of others... does he?

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Therefore, Nick's narration is considered...

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Match the setting to the analytical description below:

Draggable itemCorresponding Item
The City (Manhattan)
Old Money, born into upper class society, tradition and European ideals
The Valley of Ashes
New Money, the newly rich, rising into the upper class, the "modern" world
East Egg
The urbanized/industrialized world , a place of looser morality and more morally gray
West Egg
the lost "in between" world, a place where the downtrodden stay down, industrial waste and the discarded lower class
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Throughout the book, the green light symbolizes all of the following EXCEPT:

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Which motif/symbol best represents the "carelessness" theme of the novel?

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Which motif/symbol best represents the themes about one's "past," "memory," and one's "life journey" in the novel?

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Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald uses the motif of clothes to symbolize...

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Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald uses the motif of clocks to symbolize...

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In the beginning of the book, Fitzgerald opens with the following:

"Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry, 'Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!" - Thomas Parke D'Invilliers

This is called...

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Fitzgerald opens with these lines in order to...

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Which character is most closely aligned with this "gold-hatted lover" from the excerpt above?

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Gatsby earned his money in completely "legitimate" ways, nothing underhanded...

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Gatsby owns a bunch of "drug stores" or "corner stores" through which he made his fortune

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All along, Gatsby had created the character "Gatsby" and made his fortune in order to woo Daisy Buchanan and marry her someday...

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Gatsby is culpable for Myrtle's death.

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Gatsby "turned out alright in the end" and survives a hero, at least by name

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Nick's only compliment of Gatsby is really just a backhanded dig at everyone else.

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Daisy sends a dozen daisies to Gatsby's funeral, symbolically attending even if not in person.

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Nick doubles down and tries to propose to Jordan in response to the infidelity and broken marriages in the final chapters.

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Nick returns home to the Midwest in the end of the story.

EXCERPT: Chapter 8


"Gatsby shouldered the mattress and started for the pool. Once he stopped and shifted it a little, and the chauffeur asked him if he needed help, but he shook his head and in a moment disappeared among the yellowing trees.

... I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn't believe [the telephone call] would come, and perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about... like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees...

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There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other. with little ripples that were hardly the shadows of waves, the laden mattress moved irregularly down the pool. A small gust of wind that scarcely corrugated the surface was enough to disturb its accidental course with its accidental burden. The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of a compass, a thin red circle in the water."
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In the first paragraph here, Gatsby is compared to...

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In paragraph 2, what does Nick wish was true about this scene?

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What detail in paragraph 2 tells the reader that this is Nick's wish and not the reality of the situation?

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Nick (Fitzgerald) is suggesting that Nick wishes this was what type of story?

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Which specific word choice from the second paragraph BEST supports your answer to the previous question?

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Which detail from the third paragraph shows that this story is in fact in direct contradiction to that movement?

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This scene therefore is a perfect example of...

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Which word from this passage best captures the way Nick feels about Gatsby's death?

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At the end of this section in Chapter 8, Nick reflects that "the holocaust was complete."

Analytically speaking, Fitzgerald is...

NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY

by Robert Frost (1923)
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Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So Dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
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The speaker of this poem views the best things in life as...

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Which line from Gatsby most closely aligns with the deeper meaning of this poem?

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Like this poem, Fitzgerald also symbolizes fading youth and sinking beauty to ____ throughout the novel.

THE WASTE LAND

by T.S. Eliot (1922)
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IV. Death by Water

Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool.
Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
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In this excerpt from The Waste Land, what has literally happened to "Phlebas"?

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The speaker of the poem is saying...

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How is this poem an example of modernism?

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Phlebas could be compared most closely to which character in The Great Gatsby?

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter --- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And one fine morning---

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
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In these final lines, Fitzgerald implies that the green light is also symbolic of...

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In these final lines, Fitzgerald implies that...