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The Great Gatsby Quiz 1
What is allegory?
How does prohibition arise in The Great Gatsby?
The Great Gatsby Quiz 1
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How does prohibition arise in The Great Gatsby?
Speakeasies are the main setting for the book.
It's implied that Gatsby's fortune has come from bootlegging.
The 18th Amendment is signed during the course of the book.
The main character is a police officer who hunts bootleggers.
2
What is allegory?
None of these are correct
An extended metaphor
An actor's speech that is not supposed to be heard by other actors
Any story that attempts to explain how the world was created
3
What similarity exists between F. Scott Fitzgerald's own life and Jay Gatsby's fictional one?
Both died tragic deaths due to alcoholism.
Both drove a yellow Rolls Royce.
They both deeply loved a woman named Daisy.
Both often felt like outsiders among the extremely wealthy.
4
The underground drinking establishments that proliferated during the prohibition era were known as _____.
pubs
speakeasies
taverns
bars
5
How did modernist writers differ from previous generations of writers?
Modernist writers chose to break from tradition in form and content.
wrote about what life was like for average, working-class American.
Modernist writers focused on dialogue in stories.
Modernist writers wrote about love and relationships.
6
One of the controversial points of the book is Gatsby's profession as a _____.
Army Captain
Bootlegger
Gangster
Murderer
7
Which of the following is an example of symbolism in literature?
All of these are correct
Fall representing growing old
The color black to symbolize evil
Water symbolizing rebirth
8
Identify the metaphor listed below.
All of these are correct
She is as pretty as a picture
Knowledge is power
Tom went to the store quickly
9
How did people's lives change during the Great Depression?
Everyone now belonged to the middle class.
The unemployment rate dropped 25%.
Many people lost their homes and had to go to soup kitchens for food.
People's lives only changed if they were in debt before the depression.
10
What is the name for the African-American artistic and cultural movement centered in New York during the 1920s?
The Brooklyn Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance
The New York Nouveau
The Manhattan Muse
11
How does Gatsby's short love affair with Daisy mirror 1920s commentators' feelings about the period?
Many thought alcohol was a thing of the past.
Many thought prohibition would end soon.
Many felt the period of opulence and economic boom could not last forever.
Some felt a second Great War was coming soon.
12
F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories were loosely based on which of the following?
Organized crime in Chicago
Colonial America
Biblical narratives
His own life
13
Which of the following adjectives refers to someone who talks excessively?
garrulous
dilatory
irreverent
ingratiate
14
F. Scott Fitzgerald's
The Great Gatsby
was published in what year?
1922
1949
1925
1958
15
What is a metaphor?
An entire story, book or poem with symbolism
A comparison between two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as
A comparison between two unlike things without using the words like or as
A an object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work
16
The Great Gatsby
ends _____.
When Daisy and Gatsby call off their affair
When Gatsby hits Tom with his car
When Nick and Gatsby break off their friendship
When the husband of Tom's mistress murders Gatsby and commits suicide
17
Prohibition
refers to _____________
outlawing of the sale, production, and transport of alcoholic beverages.
the production and sale of intoxicating liquors.
the 18th Amendment, outlawing public drunkenness.
making alcohol consumption and sale illegal for those under 21.
18
How did F. Scott Fitzgerald support himself financially?
Book sales from The Great Gatsby
Writing short stories
Selling the film rights to The Great Gatsby
Hollywood scriptwriting
19
Jay Gatsby's character is ultimately responsible for his own downfall. Which literary device associates with this?
Protagonist
Tragic Hero
Biographical Sketch.
Antogonist.
20
What were young women in the 1920s who eschewed traditional social mores nicknamed?
Tomboys
Flappers
Go-girls
Skirties
21
The Great Gatsby
is set during __________
a time when prohibition was the law.
a time when prohibition was being debated in the U.S.
a time when alcoholic beverages were very expensive.
a time when prohibition only applied to the poor.
22
What historical period of American history, known as an age of excess and materialism, was
The Great Gatsby
written?
The Jazz Age.
Post WWII.
The Civil War.
The Great Depression.
23
2.
The Great Gatsby
was officially challenged by _____ in 1987.
The Pope
The American Library Association
President Ronald Reagan
Baptist College in Charleston, South Carolina
24
Bootlegging
refers to ________.
All statements are correct.
illegally making alcoholic beverages at your home.
illegally smuggling alcoholic beverages into the U.S.
illegally selling alcoholic beverages.
25
When did modernism in American literature take place?
1900-1914
1918-1950
1914-1945
1890-1914
26
Which of the following statements is a characteristic of literary modernism?
One point-of-view.
General absence of racial issues
Exclusion of pop culture
Experimentation of gender roles
27
Why is jazz representative of the 1920s?
It was innovative, carefree and modern.
It relied on untraditional beats.
It was a genre enjoyed by people of all races and ethnicities.
It required that many musicians work together.
28
Why were the 'Roaring '20s' a prosperous period?
GDP measured in at over 800 billion dollars
Wages rose to 30%
GNP grew at an annual rate of 5%
Unemployment never surpassed 10%
29
Which of the following best describes Jay Gatsby's parties?
alcohol-free events
events with free-flowing alcohol
events open to bootleggers
invitation-only events
30
Which of the following vocabulary words refers to someone who lives in New York City?
settee
Knickerbocker
Rajah
serf
31
Why did people go to speakeasies in the 1920s?
Speakeasies were music halls where people listened to jazz music.
Since alcohol was prohibited, people drank in these illegal bars.
Speakeasies were public poetry readings that people attended.
Speakeasies were cinemas where people watched movies.
32
The Great Gatsby
is associated with what common phrase that describes the potential to achieve great wealth and success?
The American Dream
The Assembly Line Phenomenon
The Writer's Craft
The Horatio Alger Effect
