Gatsby Quotes

“I wasn’t back from the war.”

• Nick

• Tom

• Gatsby

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"Tom’s got some woman in New York."

• Nick

• Daisy

• Jordan

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The whole town is desolate.

• Jordan

• Daisy

• Tom

• Nick

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We heard it from three people, so it must be true.

• Daisy

• Tom

• Jordan

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"Gatsby? . . . What Gatsby?"

• Nick

• Daisy

• Jordan

• Tom

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We were in the same senior society.

• Tom

• Nick

• Daisy

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Which of the following quotes show us that Gatsby still longs to be with Daisy even after she has been married to Tom for so many years?

• "Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night."

• "It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people...you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care."

• "Daisy was popular in Chicago, as you know."

• "She wouldn't let go of the letter."

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Which quote from 'The Great Gatsby' best illustrates Gatsby's idealism and pursuit of the American Dream?

• A) 'He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly.'

• B) 'Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.'

• C) 'I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.'

• D) 'They were careless people, Tom and Daisy.'

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What does the green light symbolize in 'The Great Gatsby'?

• A) Wealth and social status

• B) Gatsby's hope and dreams for the future

• C) The moral decay of society

• D) The inevitability of death

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Which of the following quotes best demonstrates the theme of illusion versus reality in 'The Great Gatsby'?

• A) 'I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.'

• B) 'I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.'

• C) 'They're a rotten crowd,' I shouted across the lawn.

• D) 'Her voice is full of money.'

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