The Great Gatsby Exam Questions and Answers Graded A+
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The Great Gatsby Exam Questions and Answers Graded A+
What does Gatsby want Nick to arrange for him? - Answer-a meeting between him and Daisy
What does Gatsby suggest in order to try to help Nick with his financial state? - Answer-That he work with him on a business deal
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The Great Gatsby Exam Questions
and Answers Graded A+
What does Gatsby want Nick to arrange for him? - Answer-a meeting between him and
Daisy
What does Gatsby suggest in order to try to help Nick with his financial state? - Answer-
That he work with him on a business deal
Why is it important that Daisy see Gatsby's house? - Answer-to show daisy that he was
very wealthy and could provide for her materially. That's why he lost her in the first
place: he wasn't wealthy enough for her and Tom was, and now Gatsby wants to show
her he is as wealthy as Tom if not wealthier
How does Gatsby contradict his past in telling Nick the time it took him to earn his
money for his house? How does he correct himself? What do you believe is the true
story about Gatsby's money? - Answer-Gatsby says it took him only three years to earn
the money to buy the mansion; earlier, as Nick points out, Gatsby had claimed he had
inherited his fortune from his family. He corrects himself by saying that he did initially
inherit his family's money, but lost it in the panic of the war and had to earn it back
What two businesses does Gatsby tell Nick he has been in? - Answer-The drug
business and the oil business
Daisy justifies her crying by saying, "It makes me sad because I've never seen such-
such beautiful shirts before." Why is she really crying? - Answer-She is really crying
because now she realizes Gatsby is as wealthy as Tom- if not wealthier- and she
should have chosen him, and now she wants to be with him again
Who is in the picture that Nick notices? - Answer-Mr. Dan Cody; Gatsby says Dan Cody
was his best friend years ago
Nick says, "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled
short of his dreams - not through her own fault because of the colossal vitality of his
illusion." Has Gatsby made Daisy out to be more than she really is? - Answer-yes
Who arrives to investigate Gatsby? - Answer-an ambitious young reporter
What was Gatsby's legal name? - Answer-James Gatz, from North Dakota
At what age and what event initiated the changing of his name? - Answer-Seventeen
, What had James Gatz been doing before he met Dan Cody? - Answer-He was a clam
digger, and a salmon fisher, and later a janitor at St. Olaf University
What does Dan Cody's yacht represent to Gatz? - Answer-All the beauty and glamour in
the world
What does Gatsby do for Dan Cody? - Answer-he became Dan's skipper, mate,
steward, secretary, and even jailor
What does Cody leave to Gatsby? Why does he not get it? - Answer-A legacy of $25k;
Gatsby didn't get it because Cody's last mistress/girlfriend (Ella Kaye) used legal
maneuvering to get it for herself
At Gatsby's party, what does Gatsby identify Tom as? - Answer-An air of
oppressiveness
What is the advice Nick's father has given his that he has been "turning over in [his]
mind"? - Answer-"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the
people in this world haven't had the advantages that you had."
Nick says that "reserving judgments is a matter of" what? - Answer-Infinite hope
What does Gatsby represent to Nick? - Answer-Everything for which he has an
unaffected scorn
What "extraordinary gift" does Nick find in Gatsby? - Answer-Gatsby has an
extraordinary gift for hope and romantic readiness
Nick says, "No-Gatsby turned out alright at the end." What is it that bothers Nick? -
Answer-What preyed on Gatsby, the foul dust that floated in the wake of his dreams
What does Nick go eat to learn? - Answer-The bond business
What part of the state does Nick live in? How does he compare it with East Egg? -
Answer-Nick lives on an island in Long Island Sound, one of a pair of identically shaped
islands; he lives in West Egg, the less fashionable of the two
Who is Nicks' neighbor? - Answer-Mr. Gatsby
Give a brief description of his neighbor's house - Answer-It was a mansion that he
describes as a colossal affair, a factual imitation of some hotel in Normandy with a
tower on one side and a thin veil of new ivy. It also has a marble swimming pool and
more than forty acres of lawn and garden.
Who lives in East Egg whom Nick knows? - Answer-Daisy, his second cousin once
removed
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