The Great Gatsby Jeopardy American Literature Categories Characters
The Great Gatsby Jeopardy American Literature
Categories Characters 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 Plot 1 Plot 2 Symbols Quotes 100 100 200 200 300 300 400 400 500 500 600 600 700
Characters 100 Which character is striving for the green light, grew up in North Dakota but tells Nick he’s from San Francisco, wants to reverse time and is the only person from the East Nick likes at the end of the novel?
Characters 100 Jay Gatsby Back to Categories
Characters 200 This character wants to buy Tom’s car, and commits suicide at the end of the novel
Characters 200 George Wilson Back to Categories
Characters 300 This character goes to lunch with Gatsby & Wolfsheim, says he tries not to judge people, moves west at the end of the novel, and is the cousin of Daisy.
Characters 300 Nick Carraway Back to Categories
Characters 400 This character has a voice “full of money, ” dislikes Gatsby’s parties, wears white and talks quietly so that people will move closer to her
Characters 400 Daisy Buchanan Back to Categories
Characters 500 Rumored to have cheated at sports
Characters 500 Jordan Baker Back to Categories
Characters 600 This character carries her weight sensually
Characters 600 Myrtle Wilson Back to Categories
Characters 700 This character rigged the 1919 World Series
Characters 700 Meyer Wolfsheim Back to Categories
Characters 800 This character cries over dog biscuits
Characters 800 Tom Buchanan Back to Categories
Plot 1 100 The Great Gatsby takes place during what time period?
Plot 1 100 The 1920’s Back to Categories
Plot 1 200 Why did Gatsby throw such huge parties?
Plot 1 200 He hoped they would help him find Daisy Back to Categories
Plot 1 300 What is Daisy’s hometown?
Plot 1 300 Louisville Back to Categories
Plot 1 400 Which characters lived in the valley of ashes?
Plot 1 400 The Wilson’s Back to Categories
Plot 1 500 The “very sad” event that Gatby refers to is what?
Plot 1 500 Daisy’s marriage to Tom Back to Categories
Plot 1 600 When Myrtle saw this character with Tom, she assumed she was his wife.
Plot 1 600 Jordan Baker Back to Categories
Plot 1 700 The only character who knows the whole truth about the accident and everything involved is who?
Plot 1 700 Nick Carraway Back to Categories
Plot 2 100 Why was Gatsby shot?
Plot 2 100 George Wilson thought he was Myrtle’s lover. Back to Categories
Plot 2 200 What word does Nick use to describe the Buchanans at the end of the novel?
Plot 2 200 Careless Back to Categories
Plot 2 300 Why is Gatsby’s love for Daisy doomed to fail?
Plot 2 300 She can never live up to the idea of who Gatsby imagines she is. Back to Categories
Plot 2 400 What are the ways that Gatsby tries to impress Daisy?
Plot 2 400 He hosts enormous parties, wears a gold shirt and tie, shows off his many designer shirts from London Back to Categories
Plot 2 500 Who tells Nick that they don’t need to be careful because it “takes two to make an accident”?
Plot 2 500 Jordan Baker Back to Categories
Plot 2 600 What does “Owl Eyes” find so interesting about Gatsby’s library?
Plot 2 600 All of the expensive books are real but unread Back to Categories
Plot 2 700 Why doesn’t anyone come to Gatsby’s funeral?
Plot 2 700 None of them really knew or cared about him, Nick was his only true friend. Back to Categories
Symbols 100 The colors associate with Myrtle symbolize her…. ?
Symbols 100 Lack of taste and sensual power Back to Categories
Symbols 200 The “eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg” were symbolic of what?
Symbols 200 Judgment Back to Categories
Symbols 300 What is the symbolism of the color green?
Symbols 300 Money/Wealth, Prosperity Back to Categories
Symbols 400 What is the symbolism of the color white?
Symbols 400 Purity, innocence, a blank canvas (suggesting infinite possibilities) Back to Categories
Quotations 100 Identify the speaker: “Do you think everything will please her old sport? ”
Quotations 100 Jay Gatsby Back to Categories
Quotations 200 Identify the speaker: “He’d have killed me if I hadn’t told him who owned the car”
Quotations 200 Tom Buchanan Back to Categories
Quotations 300 Identify the speaker: “But I did love Tom once—as I loved you!”
Quotations 300 Daisy Buchanan Back to Categories
Quotations 400 Identify the speaker: “I won’t be able to get away for the funeral, but will you please send my shoes? ”
Quotations 400 Klipspringer Back to Categories
Quotations 500 Identify the speaker: “I have a way to find out who killed my wife”
Quotations 500 George Wilson Back to Categories
Quotations 600 Identify the speaker: “I can’t stand my husband. The only crazy thing I did was marry him. ”
Quotations 600 Myrtle Wilson Back to Categories
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