The Great Gatsby Chapters 1-4 Review

"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

`Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, `just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.'"

• Nick Carraway

• Jay Gatsby

• Jordan Baker

• Tom Buchanan

"And I hope she'll be a fool — that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

• Nick Carraway

• Daisy Buchanan

• Tom Buchanan

• Jay Gatsby

"He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward – and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock."

Name the speaker and the subject of this excerpt.

• Nick Carraway; Tom Buchanan

• Jay Gatsby; Nick Carraway

• Tom Buchanan; Jay Gatsby

• Nick Carraway; Jay Gatsby

"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 savors of anti-climax. […] 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."

Who is being referred to in this passage?

• Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker

• Daisy and Tom Buchanan

• George and Myrtle Wilson

• Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan

He is Gatsby's business partner and friend. A small, fifty-year-old Jewish man with hairy nostrils and beady eyes, he is a gambler who made his name in organized crime by fixing the 1919 World Series.

The love of Jay Gatsby's life and the cousin of Nick Carraway.

A friend of Daisy's who becomes Nick's girlfriend. A successful pro golfer, she is beautiful and pleasant, but does not inspire Nick to feel much more than a "tender curiosity" for her.

She is a friend of Daisy's who becomes Nick's girlfriend. A successful pro golfer, she is beautiful and pleasant, but does not inspire Nick to feel much more than a "tender curiosity" for her.

This is a ______—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 and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

"He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey."

Who is being described in this passage?

• Jay Gatsby

• Nick Carraway

• Tom Buchanan

• George Wilson