The Great Gatsby Chapter 4 Test Questions – Flashcards
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What is the common denominator to all the stories about people who meet at Gatsby's parties?
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People who are using him for money and wealth
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What was Nick writing on an empty time table?
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The names of those who came to Gatsby's house
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What happened to Nick's first impression of Gatsby after Gatsby always had very little to say?
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It gradually faded. Gatsby "had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate road-house next door."
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Describe Gatsby's car.
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-Rich cream color -Bright with nickel -Triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes -Terraced w/ labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns
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What does Gatsby tell Nick about himself?
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-Son of a wealthy family in Middle West (San Francisco) -Educated in Oxford -Collected riches all around Europe -Then went into war
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What made Nick discover why Jordan thought Gatsby was lying?
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He rushed the phrase "educated at Oxford."
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What "matter" does Gatsby have Jordan Baker discuss with Nick?
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Gatsby asked Jordan to ask Nick to invite Daisy over for tea so that he can be reunited with her.
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What does Gatsby do when he is speeding in the valley of ashes?
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He shows the police a white card.
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Who is Wolfsheim? Where does Nick meet him?
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He is an associate of Gatsby's, a "mobster," who fixed the World Series in 1919. Gatsby introduces Nick to him at lunch.
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Describe Wolfsheim.
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-Small, flat-nosed Jew -Large head -Two fine growths of hair luxuriated in either nostril -Tiny eyes
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What was the old Metropole?
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A restaurant where many people have died
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What does Wolfsheim tell Nick about Gatsby?
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He is a gentleman of "good breeding," not the type to go after anybody's wife or anything.
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How does Jordan describe Daisy?
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-Eighteen -Most popular girl in Louisville -Dressed in white -Telephone rang all day
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Who was the officer with Daisy?
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Gatsby
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What was one rumor about Daisy?
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She packed her bag to go to New York to say good bye to a soldier going overseas.
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How did Daisy behave when Gatsby went overseas?
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She wouldn't speak and wouldn't play around with soldiers in town
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What did Daisy do on her wedding day? Why?
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She drank. She didn't wanna marry Tom.
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What did Tom and Daisy do when they returned from their honeymoon?
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They settled in Chicago(?)
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Why did Daisy seem so popular in Chicago?
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She didn't drink
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When was the first time Daisy heard "Gatsby" in a few years?
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When Jordan told Nick about him at Tom and Daisy's house
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After Daisy reacted to Jordan mentioning Gatsby, who did Jordan connect Gatsby with?
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The officer in her white car
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Why did Gatsby buy the mansion where it is?
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So he could be just across the bay from Daisy
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When did Gatsby tell Jordan all this?
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At the last party
