The Great Gatsby Chapters 1-4 Quiz

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The Great Gatsby Quotations Quiz – Chapters 5-7

Explain the significance of each of the following quotations. Who or what is being talked about? What does it mean? What is the context? Be specific. Write in complete sentences or your response will not be scored.

1. “’That huge place there?’” she cried pointing. “’Do you like it?’” “’I love it, but I don’t see how you live there all alone.’” “’I keep it always full of interesting people, night and day. People who do interesting things. Celebrated people.’”

2. “’They’re such beautiful shirts,’” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “’It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such – such beautiful shirts before.’”

3. “As I went over to say good-by I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! 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…No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”

4. “His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people – his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all.” Name:______

5. “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. She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.”

6. “’I wouldn’t ask too much of her,’” I ventured. “’You can’t repeat the past.’” “’Can’t repeat the past?’” he cried incredulously. “’Why of course you can!’”

7. “’I’ve been here too long. I want to get away. My wife and I want to go West.’” “’Your wife does,’” exclaimed Tom, startled. “’She’s been talking about it for ten years.’” He rested for a moment against the pump, shading his eyes. “’And now she’s going whether she wants to or not. I’m going to get her away.’”

8. “’Oh, you want too much!’” she cried to Gatsby. “’I love you now – isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.’” She began to sob helplessly. “’I did love him once – but I loved you too.’”

9. “’The God damned coward!’” he whimpered. “’He didn’t even stop his car.’”