Fitzgerald’s Life and Times Gatsby Jeopardy Symbols Characters Vocabulary Literary Terms Fitzgerald’s Life and Times $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Answer from Literary Terms Nick uses one of these when he describes Gatsby’s guests coming and going “like moths.”

$100 Question from Literary Terms What is a simile?

$200 Answer from Literary Terms In Gatsby, it is New York in the 1920s.

$200 Question from Literary Terms What is setting?

$300 Answer from Literary Terms This “turning point” occurs in Chapter 7, when Tom confronts Gatsby about his relationship with Daisy.

$300 Question from Literary Terms What is climax?

$400 Answer from Literary Terms This is a reference to another work of literature, music, art, history, mythology, etc.; for example, when Nick refers to Gatsy as “Trimalchio.”

$400 Question from Literary Terms What is allusion?

$500 Answer from Literary Terms In Gatsby, they include the “American Dream,” the danger of idealized romance and unrestrained passion, and the idea that money can’t buy happiness.

$500 Question from Literary Terms What are themes?

$100 Answer from Characters This character was a popular Louisville debutante.

$100 Question from Characters Who is Daisy Buchanan?

$200 Answer from Characters This character works in the bond business.

$200 Question from Characters Who is Nick Carraway?

$300 Answer from Characters of This character is described as a “sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.”

$300 Question from Characters Who is Tom Buchanan?

$400 Answer from Characters This character is described as having a “heightened sensitivity to the promises of life” and “an extraordinary gift for hope.”

$400 Question from Characters Who is Jay Gatsby?

$500 Answer from Characters This character is an “incurably dishonest” professional golfer.

$500 Question from Characters Who is Jordan Baker?

$100 Answer from Vocabulary HAUGHTY and SUPERCILIOUS: Synonyms or Antonyms?

$100 Question from Vocabulary SYNONYMS

$200 Answer from Vocabulary DEFT and INEPT: Synonyms or Antonyms?

$200 Question from Vocabulary ANTONYMS

$300 Answer from Vocabulary: SPORADIC and INCESSANT: Synonyms or Antonyms?

$300 Question from Vocabulary ANTONYMS

$400 Answer from Vocabulary GENIAL and CONTEMPTUOUS: Synonyms or Antonyms?

$400 Question from Vocabulary ANTONYMS

$500 Answer from Vocabulary NEBULOUS and AMORPHOUS: Synonyms or Antonyms?

$500 Question from Vocabulary SYNONYMS

$100 Answer from Life and Times This is the decade during which Fitzgerald did most of his writing.

$100 Question from Life and Times What are the 1920s?

$200 Answer from Life and Times: This is the law that made the sale and transportation of alcohol illegal

$200 Question from Life and Times What is Prohibition?

$300 Answer from Life and Times This caused Fitzgerald’s death at age 44

$300 Question from Life and Times What is a heart attack?

$400 Answer from Life and Times This is the genre of music that became popular during Fitzgerald’s lifetime

$400 Question from Life and Times What is jazz?

$500 Answer from Life and Times This is the crime for which Al Capone was finally imprisoned

$500 Question from Life and Times What is Tax Evasion?

$100 Answer from Symbols This represents Gatsby’s dream—or any impossible dream we strive to attain; Gatsby is seen reaching for it at the end of Chapter 1

$100 Question from Symbols What is the green light?

$200 Answer from Symbols These overlook the Valley of Ashes and symbolize, possibly, the eye of God watching mankind with disapproval.

$200 Question from Symbols What are the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg?

$300 Answer from Symbols This gray dump between West Egg and New York symbolizes America as a “moral wasteland”

$300 Question from Symbols What is the Valley of Ashes?

$400 Answer from Symbols These are the two colors that carry the most symbolic significance in The Great Gatsby.

$400 Question from Symbols What are green and white?

$500 Answer from Symbols These items represent the truth about Gatsby—that he is not the educated, sophisticated gentleman he appears to be—as well as the mystery of who he really is.

$500 Question from Symbols What are the uncut books?

Final Jeopardy Category: Life and Times

Final Jeopardy Question: This is the name of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife.