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🥂 The Great Gatsby – A-level
English Literature · A-level — practise plot, characters, symbols, key quotations and themes of Fitzgerald's novel.
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Questions
In The Great Gatsby, where do Tom and Daisy Buchanan live?
The valley of ashes
East Egg
Manhattan
West Egg
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Where is the green light that Gatsby reaches towards at the end of Chapter 1?
Above Wilson's garage door
On top of Gatsby's mansion
On a billboard in the valley of ashes
At the end of Daisy's dock
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Who is driving Gatsby's car when it hits and kills Myrtle Wilson?
Gatsby
Jordan
Tom
Daisy
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What was Jay Gatsby's real name before he reinvented himself?
Dan Cody
Walter Chase
Henry Gatz
James Gatz
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In Chapter 8, how does the grieving George Wilson interpret the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg?
As a reminder of Myrtle's beauty
As a sign that his garage will prosper
As the all-seeing eyes of God
As a warning sent by Tom Buchanan
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During the reunion with Daisy in Chapter 5, which object does Gatsby nearly knock off Nick's mantelpiece?
A glass of champagne
A clock that no longer works
A vase of fresh flowers
A photograph of Daisy
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Which character says of Daisy, 'Her voice is full of money'?
Jordan
Gatsby
Tom
Nick
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At the end of Chapter 3, Nick says he is one of the few people he has ever known who is:
Loyal
Careful
Patient
Honest
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Nick says, 'they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money'. Who are 'they'?
Myrtle and George
Tom and Daisy
Tom and Jordan
Gatsby and Daisy
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Complete the novel's final line: 'So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly…'
into the past
into the dark
towards the green light
into the future
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