The Great Gatsby: Test REVIEW Mrs. Fusca

TEST Section I: True or False Section II: Multiple Choice Section III: Quotation Identification Section IV: 2/3 paragraph- Essay prompt __________/ 50

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 Nick likes at the end of the novel?

Jay Gatsby

This character wants to buy Tom’s car and commits suicide at the end of the novel.

George Wilson

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.

Nick Carraway

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.

Daisy

Rumored to have cheated at sports

Jordan Baker

Why did Gatsby throw such huge parties?

Turn back time and win Daisy back

At the beginning of the novel, Nick recounts a conversation where his father tells him to remember that “all of the people in this world haven’t had the _________ you’ve had...”

advantages

What does the following metaphor about the moths suggest about the people who attend Gatsby’s parties? : “In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”

The partygoers are attracted to something potentially destructive.

What does the green light symbolize?

Gatsby’s dreams of success and love.

Gatsby’s father shows Nick a list of “General Resolves” that Gatsby wrote as a teenager. All of the following are on this list EXCEPT: A. Read one improving book or magazine per week. B. No smoking or chewing. C. Be better to parents. D. Join the army.

Join the army.

Identify the speaker: “Do you think everything will please her old sport?”

Jay Gatsby

“Daisy! Daisy! Daisy! I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai--”

Myrtle

“Civilization’s going to pieces.”

Tom

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

Nick

‘God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing ‘God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!’”

George Wilson

“He’s a gambler... He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919.”

Meyer Wolfsheim

When Nick imagines Gatsby’s final thoughts while floating in the pool before he died, Nick narrates, “…he paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky…as he found out what a grotesque thing a rose is…” What rhetorical device does this represent? (Is it a simile or a metaphor?)

A metaphor, meaning Daisy was a rose not worthy of Gatsby’s dream and obsession.

What time of year does Gatsby die? Why is this symbolic?

He dies in the fall, which is symbolic of a time when things die off before winter.

An Analysis of "Dreams" by Langston Hughes Hold fast to dreams  For if dreams die  Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field   Frozen with snow.

Poem's theme: Langston Hughes uses figurative language to stress the importance of having dreams; He uses metaphors to show how miserable a life without dreams becomes. Langston Hughes uses personification and imagery to contrast a life with dreams and a life without dreams. Therefore: The speaker advises the reader to hold onto dreams because if dreams die, life will be like a bird with damaged wings that cannot fly. When dreams go away, life is a “barren field” covered with frozen snow.

It's the figurative language that gives the poem power It's the figurative language that gives the poem power.  Each stanza contains a metaphor.  The first stanza compares a life without dreams to a "broken-winged bird."  A broken-winged bird's life has no purpose, much in the same way a life without dreams has no purpose.  The second stanza compares a life without dreams to a "barren field frozen with snow."  A field is created for the purpose of providing life.  A barren field does not fulfill its purpose.  A life is created to give and provide life to others.  A life without dreams does nothing.

The Great Gatsby- A Critique of the AmericanDream