Gatsby - Chapters 1-5 - Test Review

How can Gatsby reuniting with Daisy be considered a turning point in the novel?

Who says, "They’re such beautiful shirts…?”

What do the “eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg symbolize or represent?

Why does Gatsby throw huge parties?

Who is Daisy's cousin?

What is the major theme of The Great Gatsby?

Who owns a struggling auto repair shop?

Who says, "I hate careless people.  That’s why I like you?”

Who organizes a meeting between Gatsby and Daisy?

Who is the only person from the East who Nick likes (as mentioned in chapter 1)?

Who says, "After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe …?"

Who says, "Absolutely real. Have pages and everything?”

Who moved East to become a bondsman?

Who says, "This is an unusual party for me.  I haven’t even seen the host?”

Who is the book's narrator and "author?"

Who says, "It’s really his wife that’s keeping them apart. She’s a Catholic…?”

Who carries her excess weight sensuously (seductively)?

Who wants to reverse time and repeat history?

What’s the name of the family that lives in the Valley of Ashes?

Who is rumored to have cheated at sports?

Who gets a broken nose from Tom?

Who has human molars as cuff links?

When does The Great Gatsby take place?

Who says, "I thought you knew, old sport.  I’m afraid I’m not a very good host?”

Who says, "Daisy!  Daisy!  Daisy!  I’ll say it whenever I want to!  Daisy!  Dai---”

Who is striving for the green light?

Who says, “the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool?”

Who says, "I can’t complain.  When are you going to sell me that car?”

Who says, "We’re getting off.  I want you to meet my girl?"

Who uses a white card to get out of a speeding ticket?

What does Nick’s father tell him to do (we learn this in the first chapter)?

Who says, "I can’t forget so long as I live the night they shot Rosy Rosenthal there?"

Who thinks all women can be is “beautiful fools?"

What does “Owl Eyes” find so interesting about Gatsby’s library?

Who fixed the 1919 World Series?

Who says, "You’re acting like a little boy...Daisy’s sitting in there all alone?”

Who says, "I was in the drug business & I was in the oil business. I’m not in either one now?”

What does the “green light” symbolize?

Who says, "Nick, have you read The Rise of the Colored Empires by this man Goddard?”