WorksheetsThe Great Gatsby Quotes
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
Identify the character who said: “He had on a dress suit and patent leather shoes, and I couldn’t keep my eyes off him...”
Nick
Daisy
Jordan
Myrtle
Identify the character who said: “Can’t repeat the past? Why, of course you can.”
Gatsby
Nick
Tom
George
Identify the character who said: “An Oxford man! Like hell he is! He wears a pink suit.”
Gatsby
Klipspringer
Tom
George
Identify the character who said: “It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me.”
Gatsby
Tom
George
Dan Cody
Identify the character who said: “I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. Sophisticated—God, I’m sophisticated!”
Gatsby
Daisy
Jordan
Tom
Identify the character who said: “When are you going to sell me that car?”
Gatsby
Nick
Tom
George
Identify the character who said: “I married him because I thought he was a gentleman.”
Jordan
Daisy
Myrtle
Ella
Identify the character who said: “He wants her to see his house…and your house is right next door.”
Tom
Gatsby
Jordan
Daisy
Identify the character who said: “It’s really his wife that’s keeping them apart. She’s a Catholic, and they don’t believe in divorce.”
Jordan
Catherine
Ella
Myrtle
Identify the character who said: “Jimmy was bound to get ahead.”
Nick
Daisy
Mr. Gatz
T.J. Eckleburg
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” This passage best exemplifies the theme of:
Love
Aspiration
Careless rich
Self-made man
“So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.” This passage most clearly shows the theme of:
Love
Self-made man
Carless rich
Inability to recapture the past
“ ‘You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of the dock’… Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had vanished forever.” This passage most clearly represents the theme of Gatsby’s
Aspiration
Inability to recapture the past
Love
Corruption
The book cover’s illustration takes its inspiration from which passage in the novel?
“I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes.”
“Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.”
“Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms.
“Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.”
“He found her excitingly desirable. He went to her house…Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware…of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor.” What is the significance of this passage?
It shows Gatsby is only superficially attracted to Daisy because she represents wealth and success.
It shows Gatsby is using Daisy to build his reputation up and become more successful in business.
It shows Gatsby adores Daisy for being so perfect and different from the other women of the time.
It shows Gatsby is attracted to Daisy because like him, she also came from a wealthy family.
