The Great Gatsby (Chapter 1)

Who said, "I'm paralyzed with happiness!"

• Jordan

• Desi

• Daisy

• Nick

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The narrator of the story is...

• Tom

• Nick

• Daisy

• Jordan

East Egg

• The "old money" neighborhood

• The "new money" neighborhood

• The "Boys in Da Hood" neighborhood

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"A beautiful fool"

• Who Jordan really is

• Who Daisy says that she is

• The kind of woman Nick is looking for

• What Daisy hopes that her daughter will be

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Jordan and Daisy knew each other from...

• Louisville

• Merriville

• Long Beach

• Louisiana

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Tom is described as...(2 words)

• Racist

• Hulking

• Profound

• Cheater

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Gatsby lives...

• In the mansion across from Tom

• in East Egg

• With his girl in West L.A.

• in West Egg

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The overall setting of the novel is...

• New York

• New Hampshire

• New Zealand

• Newfoundland

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Hyperbole is a literary term that means exaggeration. Which 2 are hyperbole?

• "I'm paralyzed with happiness!"

• "She's got an aunt that is about a thousand years old."

• "In two weeks it will be the longest day of the year."

• "...Nordics have produced all the things that go to make civilization..."

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An oxymoron is when two words or statements that are opposite are placed together. Which statement is an oxymoron?

• "A hulking brute of a man..."

• "...I went to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all."

• "...an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming."

• "I've gotten to be a terrible pessimist..."

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