<p>Name ______Block ______Date ______The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 Reading Guide and Questions</p><p>Key Terms </p><p>1. Dukes of Buccleuch: titles given to a line of Scottish 16. Lake Forest: unknown location, possibly a city in descendants of Charles II of England and Anne Scott, Illinois Countess of Buccleuch 17. Georgian Colonial mansion: a mansion built in the 2. New Haven: a city in Connecticut where Yale University is architectural style of the Colonial period in America (early located 18th Century) 3. delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War: 18. riding clothes: an outfit designed for horse-riding World War I is also known as the “Great War”; the 19. senior society: an all-male secret society, group, or “delayed teutonic migration” refers to the ancient German organization Teutons who migrated across ancient Rome; the “delayed” migration may be Nick referring to the German Nazi’s 20. Italian garden: a type of garden known for its attempt to control and take over Europe sculpted trees and shrubbery and lack of flowers 4. bond business: the business of buying and selling bonds, 21. French windows: a pair of encasement windows which are formal contracts to repay borrowed money designed like French doors 5. Finnish: from Finland 22. bond man: a businessman who buys, sells, or trades bonds 6. mint: the United States mint, which produces coins and bills 23. claret: a dark rose wine 7. Midas: a legendary king whose touch allegedly turned 24. Nordics: people from the Nordic countries of everything to gold Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden 8. Morgan: J.P. Morgan, a Wall Street Banker who made 25. Cunard: a luxury cruise ship millions at the turn of the 20th Century 26. White Star Line: a line of luxury cruise ships 9. Maecenas: Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, a Roman statesman 27. settee: a long sofa-like seat with arms and a back known for being a well-connected and wealthy person 28. Saturday Evening Post: a bimonthly American 10. Yale: a private university in New Haven, Connecticut magazine first published in 1728 11. Long Island Sound: an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean 29. Westchester: a suburban county in New York that lies between the coast of Connecticut and Long Island, New York 30. rotogravure pictures: an early type of photograph produced on photogravure presses 12. egg in the Columbus story: refers to the legend that Christopher Columbus, having been told that discovering 31. Asheville: a city in North Carolina the Americas was nothing great, challenged his critics to 32. Hot Springs: a mountain city in Arkansas make an egg stand on its end 33. veranda: a roofed open porch attached to the 13. Hotel de Ville: an ornate and massive government exterior of a building building in Paris, France 34. banns: public announcements of marriage proposals, 14. Normandy: a region along the coast of Northern usually in a newspaper and church bulletin France and the Channel Islands 35. red gas pumps: early gas pumps that were painted 15. string of polo ponies: a set of horses bred and trained red to play the game of polo 36. grass roller: a manual roller used for smoothing new sod or uneven grass </p><p>Directions: Answer the following questions in complete sentences. You may write on this paper, as long as you fully answer the question. 1. Chapter 1 begins with a quote: “When ever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” What does this quote mean? What conclusions/predictions can you make about the narrator from this quote? </p><p>2. List 5-7 important details that we learn about the narrator from this chapter. </p><p>3. How does Nick compare East and West Egg? Who is Nick’s neighbor? How does Nick describe his neighbor’s house? </p><p>4. Describe Tom. </p><p>5. Describe Daisy.</p><p>6. About what has Tom been reading? What does this book’s philosophy indicate about Tom’s views? What does this say about American society at the time? </p><p>7. What do we learn about Tom from the phone call? How does Daisy deal with the interruption? </p><p>8. What does Daisy mean when she says “And I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”? </p><p>9. What rumor had Daisy heard about Nick? </p><p>10. Describe Tom and Daisy’s relationship. 11. What strange sight does Nick see at the end of Chapter 1? </p><p>12. From what point of view is the story being told? In what tense? </p>