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GREAT GATSBY SG EXAM QUESTIONS

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-Guarantee passing score -16 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert- Explanation Question 1: Why does Nick, observing the events in the apartment, identify with "the casual watcher in the darkening street"?

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Because he sees that person as being an objective reporter of the scene

Question 2: What does Nick see as his "cardinal virtue"?

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Himself Question 3: When Nick asks Gatsby what part of the Middle West he is from, Gatsby replies, "San Francisco." What does Nick surmise from Gatsby's answer?

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Those from West Egg are people who earn money through things like the entertainment industry

Question 4: Why do Daisy and Tom Buchanan invite Nick to dinner?

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Because aside from Tom and Nick going to college together, Daisy is Nick's cousin twice removed

Question 5: Why doesn't Nick call to Gatsby when Nick first spots him on the lawn?

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Nick thinks Gatsby wants to be alone by himself Question 6: What is the importance of Gatsby's implied business connection with Meyer Wolfsheim?

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Nick perceives that if Gatsby has connections with shady character as Wolfshiem, he might be involved in organized crime

Question 7: Why did Nick Carraway come to the East?

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To learn and hopefully make his fortune working in the bond market Question 8: Why does Gatsby throw huge, expensive parties for people he does not know?

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He wants everyone to have a good impression of him Question 9: As revealed by Jordan, what was Gatsby's original relationship with Daisy? (1/2)

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Gatsby and Daisy meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer.Question 10: What does Tom's breaking of Myrtle's nose indicate about his respect for her and for Daisy?

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He shows no respect for her & wants her to respect Daisy.Question 11: As revealed by Jordan, what was Gatsby's original relationship with Daisy? (2/2)

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After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means and to the pursuit of Daisy.

Question 12: What do Jordan Baker's leaving "a borrowed car out in the rain with the top down" and her golf tournament "scandal" reveal about her?

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Untrustworthy Question 13: Why, according to Catherine, has Tom not left Daisy to marry Myrtle Wilson?

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According to Catherine Tom has not left Daisy for Myrtle because she says that Daisy is a Catholic who doesn't believe in divorce Question 14: How does Daisy respond to the phone calls from Tom's "woman in New York"?

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She apparently had some suspicion that Tom was being unfaithful Question 15: Why does "white ashen dust" veil Mr. Wilson's "dark suit and his pale hair"?

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Fitzgerald uses color and light and dark as symbolically as possible Question 16: Why does Gatsby show Nick the medal from "Little Montenegro down on the Adriatic Sea"?

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So Nick will believe the stories that he is telling