Gatsby 4-6

Which of the following is NOT an intended effect of Fitzgerald’s passage in which Nick finds an old time-table on which he had listed the names of guests to Gatsby’s parties?

to show that Nick cherished his association with Gatsby’s guests

“It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns. Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory, we started to town.” Which of the following best expresses how Fitzgerald’s diction creates our sense of Gatsby’s car?

Details such as “monstrous length,” “labyrinth of windshields,” “many layers of glass,” and “green leather conservatory” emphasize the elaborate, ostentatious, showiness of the car

Which is NOT a detail of his past life told by Gatsby to Nick on their way to New York City?

His family, very wealthy, live on the West Coast.

Which of the following is evidence that Gatsby shows Nick as verification of his story?

a photograph at Oxford and a medal from montenegro

“Anything can happen now that we’ve slid over this bridge, I thought, anything at all….Even Gatsby could happen, without any particular wonder—“ Fitzgerald’s purpose in this passage is to suggest that

The unusual sights of NYC make NIck more aware of life’s possibilities

Which of the following is NOT a detail with which Fitzgerald characterizes Meyer Wolfsheim?

His diction is that of a well-educated man

Who says, “Miss Baker’s a great sportswoman, you know, and she’d never do anything that wasn’t right”?

gatsby

In Jordan’s memory of Daisy the day before her wedding to Tom, Jordan recalls that

Daisy, very drunk, sobs over a mysterious letter, the content of which she never discloses

“Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night.He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor.” Which of the following is a true statement about this passage?

Rebirth imagery suggests that, in Nick’s mind, Gatsby is reborn as a man with a dream.

When Gatsby offers Nick an opportunity to make money, Nick responds: “I realize now that under different circumstances that conversation might have been one of the crises of my life. But because the offer was obviously and tactlessly for a service to be rendered, I had no choice but to cut him off there.” Which oft he following statement is NOT true of Nick’s response?

Metaphoric language suggests that Nick suspects the dangerous nature of Gatsby’s offer

Which of the following best identifies the contrasting tones of Nick’s description of Jay and Daisy before and after Nick left his house to stand under the tree in the rain?

awkward then joyful

Gatsby, in his excitement in being with daisy, contradicts an earlier story by

telling Nick that it took him just three years to earn enough money to buy his

house

“We went upstairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk

and vivid with new flowers, through dressing rooms and poolrooms, and

bathrooms with sunken baths.” Which of the following is an accurate description

of how syntax contributes to meaning?

Cumulative sentence structure connects the varied sensory impressions,

expressing Nick’s sense of wonder at the seeming unending procession of rooms.

Which is the reason given for Daisy’s outburst of crying during her tour of

Gatsby’s house?

She is overwhelmed by the beauty of Gatsby’s shirts.

Nick comments, “Possibly it had occurred to him [Gatsby] that the colossal

significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great

413distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost

touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a

great light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.”

Which of the following statements is true of this passage?

The many past tense verbs create an ironic sense of loss as Gatsby’s dream is

partially realized.

“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of

his dreams—not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his

illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into

it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright

feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire and freshness can challenge what a

man will store up in his ghostly heart.” Which of the following is NOT true of

this passage?

Connotative language emphasizes Daisy’s magical, invaluable nature.

Nick’s comment that “It was James Gatz who had been loafing along the beach

that afternoon in a torn green jersey and a pair of canvas pants, but it already was

Jay Gatsby who borrowed a rowboat, pulled out to the Tuolome and informed

Cody that a wind might catch him and break him up in half an hour” shows that

James Gatz transformed himself into a man who took advantage of every

opportunity.

“The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his

Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it

means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the

service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.” Which of the following

statements does NOT correctly explain a connection between diction and meaning

in this passage?

Religious terminology affirms the truly spiritual nature of Gatsby’s quest

In the passage “For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination;

they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of

the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing,” “fairy’s wing” is best

explained as

part of the paradoxical explanation of Gatsby’s sense of possibility.

Which of the following does Gatsby get from his association with Dan Cody?

an education in the ways of the wealthy

Nick’s account of social interaction between Gatsby, and Tom Buchanan and the Sloanes, reveals that

Tom is irritated that Gatsby knows Daisy

“But the rest offended her—and inarguably, because it wasn’t a gesture but an emotion. She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented ‘place’ that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village—appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short cut from nothing to nothing.” Which of the following statements is true of this passage?

Connotative language shows that Fitzgerald at least partially agrees with Daisy’s attitude toward West Egg society & there is a suggestion that show business created a monied class whose behavior violated the rules of polite society

Gatsby is convinced that he can

repeat the past

The tone of “The quiet lights in the houses were humming out into the darkness and there was a stir and bustle among the stars”

emerges from the strictly visual imagery in the passage and from Fitzgerald’s deliberate confusion of visual and auditory imagery (b&c)

“Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalk really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees—he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder. “His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.” Which of the following statements explains the meaning of this passage?

Gatsby’s supernatural ambition places him imaginatively close to God; he sacrifices this position, however, when he kisses Daisy and transforms her into his dream.