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WorksheetsGatsby vocab review
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
What decade was the setting for the story of the Great Gatsby
1950s
1940s
1920s
1930s
"Daisy's world was redolent of orchids and pleasant flowers"
What does the word redolent mean in the above sentence?
musty
fragrant
foul
stench
The narrator of the Great Gatsby excerpt is.....
Nick Carraway
Jay Gatsby
Daisy
Tom Buchanan
"The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while"
Tranquil in this statement means:
excited
agitated
peaceful
nervous
" he knew that he was in Daisy’s house by a colossal accident"
Colossal in this statement means:
massive
petite
minuscule
miniature
The dialogue of the Great Gatsby excerpt is between Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby.
What does dialogue mean?
silence
monologue
conversation
debate
" ‘Jay Gatsby’ had broken up like glass against Tom’s hard malice"
Malice in this statement means:
goodwill
viciousness
friendliness
valor
In the excerpt from the Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is the ...
antagonist
narrator
secondary character
protagonist
"He did extraordinarily well in the war."
Extraordinarily in this sentence means:
typical
poorly
sensational
awful
" He took what he could get, ravenously and unscrupulously."
Unscrupulously in this sentence means:
honorable
degraded
noble
unethical
The beginning of the Great Gatsby excerpt starts with a flashback from Gatsby's early life.
Flashback in this sentence means:
recollection of experience
present experience
future experience
current event
"Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth can preserve."
Preserve means:
neglect
damage
harm
maintain
"There were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low sweet fever."
Incessantly in this sentence means:
seldom
occasionally
consistently
periodically
Jay Gatsby states, "Well, there I was, way off my ambitions"
Ambitions in this sentence means:
procrastination
aspirations
laziness
apathy
