The Great Gatsby Quizzes Online & Trivia

Comparing East Egg and West Egg, it's just two different classes of wealth. One is new wealth and the other is old wealth. West Egg being the one with the new wealth, the ones who just became rich. This is the category Gatsby himself falls under, as he throws lavish parties to impress. The difference is that the people in East Egg are used to the money, they are all born into rich, while on the West Egg you have to work hard and find your way to the top.

I took this test twice and got the right awnser and right spelling both time so why does it keep marking me wrong

My correct answer was marked as being wrong. This test is getting to be a holy mess.

Writing is a complex piece of art. It has many aspects. You will be surprised to hear of the numerous folds of writing besides grammar. A literary device is something similar. It is what writers use to add special effects to their piece. For instance, a literary device can be a flashback or an analogy. This introduces a new dimension in the writing and a special flavor to the writing. Similarly, a literary device can be a metaphor. This helps readers understand the writer’s idea better. It is a special writing aid that writers use to enhance and beautify their writing.

The Great Gatsby is a novel written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is set in West Egg, Long Island in 1922. It takes place during the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties. The author Fitzgerald was inspired by parties he actually attended himself on Long Island. He led a similar life to Nick and possibly fashioned that character to be him. Jay Gatsby is a millionaire who is in love with a beautiful young lady, Daisy Buchanan. The story has many twists and turns between the characters Nick, Tom, and Daisy. At one point Nick becomes annoyed by Tom’s response to Nick’s unemployment. He felt Tom’s response was meant to degrade him. At the end of the story, Nick moves back to the Midwest.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald entered Princeton University in 1913. Fitzgerald is a known American fiction writer who wrote the famous novels The Beautiful an the Damned, The Last Tycoon, Tender is the Night, and the one that hit the big screen just a few years back The Great Gatsby. He also had an unfinished novel titled The Last Tycoon and during his lifetime, a great number of his short stories were published in magazines. When he was a student in Princeton, he dedicated his time in writing thus he joined in Princeton Triangle Club and the Princeton Tiger. He was bid by the University’s eating club and he chose to be part of the University Cottage Club where houses Fitzgerald’s writing materials and desk in its library.

Option A - books in Gatsby's library. The books in Gatsby's library symbolises that Gatsby's life is fake and a bluff. The pages of books in his library are uncut which means Gatsby never read any of the books on his shelves and they are just there for display.

The answer to this item is letter A. In Chapter 6 of The Great Gatsby, Gatsby throws a party in his mansion and invited Daisy and Tom. Daisy was impressed with the number of celebrities present at the party but despite that, she was not having a great time. Gatsby was very desperate in making an impression to Daisy thus the extravagant quests and lavish decorations. But after the party, Nick told him that she clearly did not like the party. Gatsby had a strong desire for Daisy to fall in love with him and wanted her to say that she never loved Tom. He wanted Daisy to leave Tom and run to him to the point of being delusional that this can happen easily.

In the book, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is set in the 1920s when the Great Depression took place, but Jay Gatsby is a millionaire who lives on Long Island. He is in love with a young married woman who lives across the way from him. He watches her. Her name is Daisy Buchanan. She is married to Tom who is also having an affair. Soon, she has an affair with Jay Gatsby, but their relationship is really based on lies and deceit. Instead of achieving his financial status morally, he was actually a bootlegger with alcohol when it was not allowed and got his money that way. Therefore, he was not forthcoming to Daisy about how he made his millions.

OK, I have just about had it with this error-filled test. The eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg represent the empty, godless nature of most of the novel's characters. This is emphasized when George Wilson, in the wake of his wife's death, looks at the billboard and says, "You can't fool God. God sees everything." The instructor who wrote this quiz needs to read the book and some reliable literary criticism and analysis of it.

The first few paragraphs of The Great Gatsby are intro paragraphs. They are dedicated to introducing the whole story. Most importantly, in these paragraphs, Fitzgerald tells us that nick is a reliable narrator. He also gives us the details about Nick. Info about his family and his background in general is shown in the paragraphs. This s important intro to nicks life and his relation with the story as he will be doing most of the narration. The story moves on after that but without these intro paragraphs we would have been unable to develop a link between nick and the story, which is crucial.

He feels responsible for arranging gatsby funeral because he feels he knows him the most.