TGG-Chapters 1-3 Quiz

 We have seen three different parties through the first three chapters of The Great Gatsby. Name the most important information the reader learns during this party. (Label your responses 1, 2, 3)

1. 1. Dinner a Tom and Daisy's house in chapter 1

2. 2. Party in Tom and Myrtle's apartment in New York in chapter 2.

3. 3. Party at Gatsby's house in chapter 3.

What is the main rumor people whisper about Gatsby?

• He does not like Nick Carraway

• He actually doesn't like having parties

• He killed a man

• Him and Tom Buchanan have a close friendship

How is Myrtle Wilson different than the other people in the Valley of Ashes?

• She is happy, content, and complacent

• She has energy, desire, and hope

• She is lost, pessimistic, and careless

• She is negative, rude, and inattentive

What is unique about why Nick comes to Gatsby’s party. Yes, he lives next door, but there’s something special about why Nick shows up.

 So far, who seems to be the most honest person in the novel? Why?

A rebellious woman in the 1920's was called a...

• flapper

• papper

• yapper

• trapper

When F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, how was it received?

• Negatively, but sales sky rocketed

• Positively, and sales sky rocketed

• Positively, but sales remained low

• Negatively, and sales remained low

In the Valley of Ashes, a symbolic billboard image looms over everything. What does the billboard symbolize?

• A phoenix that will rise from the "ashes."

• The poverty and working class that lives in the valley

• The eyes are like the eyes of God; they are looking over everything in the valley

• The billboard is not symbolic of anything

Match the following

• Tom's mistress

• Myrtle Wilson

• Known for throwing lavish parties

• Tom Buchanan

• Super wealthy; played football at Yale

• Jay Gatsby

• The narrator of the story

• Nick Carraway

• Nick's cousin

• Daisy Buchanan

In chapter 3, we FINALLY get to meet Jay Gatsby. Describe him.