Gatsby Quiz on Chapter 2

1.  What eyes “dimmed a little by many…days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground” (24)?

• The eyes of God.

• The eyes of George Wilson

• The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg

• The eyes of Myrtle Wilson.

According to Tom, who is “so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive” (26)?

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Give one detail about Tom and Myrtle’s apartment in New York.

Who is Nick describing: "Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment, and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her, until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smoky air"?

Make a statement about Nick's tone in this description: "Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions, became more violently affected moment by moment, and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her, until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smoky air" (31).

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Explain what Nick means when he says, “Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering.  I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life” (35).

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3