Gatsby Quiz Ch.1

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Imagine you're in a thrilling book club meeting with Abigail, Elijah, and Kai. The book of the day is 'The Great Gatsby'. Who do you think is narrating the story?

• Nick

• Gatsby

• Fitzgerald

• Daisy

Evelyn, Aiden, and Abigail are having a heated debate. Can you help them settle it? Where does the enigmatic Gatsby reside?

• on East Egg

• on West Egg

• in New York City

• in the Valley of Ashes

Hannah, Grace, and Kai are discussing Tom's personality. Which words do they use to describe Tom?

• limited excellence

• glittering

• paralyzed with happiness

• shrill metallic urgency

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Aria and Ava are having a debate about the connotations of West Egg. Can you help them figure it out?

• new money

• working to earn money

• less fashionable

• all the above

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Imagine Benjamin, Maya, and Emma are playing a game of 'Gatsby Trivia'. Benjamin draws a card and reads out the question: 'What are the connotations of East Egg?'

• old money

• palaces

• inherited money

• all the above

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Imagine you're in a book club with Avery, Samuel, and Isla. You've just finished reading chapter 1 of 'The Great Gatsby'. What significant event did you all discuss?

• Avery mentioned that Gatsby and Nick had dinner

• Samuel thought that Tom and Daisy got in a fight

• Isla pointed out that Nick saw Gatsby reaching out for the green light

• The group discussed Miss Baker telling Nick about Gatsby's famous parties

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"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" (Fitzgerald 6).

• oxymoron

• paradox

• allusion

• metaphor

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"The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door..." (Fitzgerald 6).

• allusion

• verbal irony

• pardox

• personification

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"They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house" (8).

• idiom

• wind imagery

• paradox

• metaphor

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