The Great Gatsby Ch. 1-3 Quiz

Chapter One:

For all answers, write in complete sentences with proper grammar, fluency, spelling, capitalization, and spelling. You may use specific text evidence from your packets.

What is the setting for this novel?

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Chapter One:

For all answers, write in complete sentences with proper grammar, fluency, spelling, capitalization, and spelling. How might the setting influence or inform some future key themes?

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Chapter One:

For all answers, write in complete sentences with proper grammar, fluency, spelling, capitalization, and spelling. What is the difference between East and West Egg?

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Chapter One:

For all answers, write in complete sentences with proper grammar, fluency, spelling, capitalization, and spelling. Do you think that Nick is a person you could be friends with? Explain why or why not with close reference to the text (specifically in terms of describing his personality).

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Chapter one:

For all answers, write in complete sentences with proper grammar, fluency, spelling, capitalization, and spelling.

Who is the one person immune from Nick's negative reaction to that one summer, and why might this make the reader suspicious of his "unbiased" narration?

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CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

Chapter One:

For all answers, write in complete sentences with proper grammar, fluency, spelling, capitalization, and spelling.

Nick describes Tom as having a "cruel body". What might he mean by this? What does this tell us about his opinion of Tom?

Chapter One:

For all answers, write in complete sentences with proper grammar, fluency, spelling, capitalization, and spelling.

Why does Daisy want her daughter to be a fool? What does this reveal about Daisy?

Chapter One:

For all answers, write in complete sentences with proper grammar, fluency, spelling, capitalization, and spelling.

In what way is Nick's first glimpse of Gatsby somewhat eerie? Why might Fitzgerald have written it this way?

Chapter Two:

For all answers, write in complete sentences with proper grammar, fluency, spelling, capitalization, and spelling.

What is the Valley of Ashes and where is it? How does this location relate to the economic context of the time?

Chapter Two:

For all answers, write in complete sentences with proper grammar, fluency, spelling, capitalization, and spelling.

Describe the character of Myrtle and the ways she and Daisy are similar and different.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.9