Please someone, anyone I really need help, I just want to cry.


QUESTION 2
How does the following section of text serve to provide the reader with insight into Tom and Daisy’s characterization?

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy –they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . .”

Question 2 options:

The reader can tell that Tom and Daisy are people who do not care about the poverty afflicting others.


The reader can see Tom and Daisy are wealthy people have little regard for others and are unconcerned about the problems their actions may create.


The passage makes it obvious that Tom and Daisy are extremely wealthy and hire many housekeepers to clean up the messes they make in their home.


The reader can clearly see that Tom and Daisy are madly in love and always stick together faithfully no matter what mess they are faced with.






How do readers view Tom Buchanan as a result of his behavior in the novel's opening chapters? View the following passage as an example:



Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs. Wilson stood face to face discussing in impassioned voices whether Mrs. Wilson had any right to mention Daisy’s name.

‘Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!’ shouted Mrs. Wilson. ‘I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai——‘

Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her

nose with his open hand.

Then there were bloody towels upon the bathroom floor, and women’s voices scolding, and high over the confusion a long broken wail of pain.

Question 4 options:

Readers immediately see that Tom is a victim of his own good nature.


Readers completely understand that Tom is a perceptive friend.


Readers immediately recognize that Tom is a cruel bully.


Readers begin to realize that Tom is a kind person who makes poor decisions




Question 5 (5 points)
By writing the novel entirely from Nick Carraway's point of view, F. Scott Fitzgerald __________.

Question 5 options:

consciously provides readers with a limited, one-sided description of events as Nick sees them.


reminds readers that Nick, in the end, is mostly responsible for what happens to the other characters.




galvanizes reader opinion against Nick so that his descriptions of events are always deemed unreliable.


allows readers to know all about the thoughts and feelings of every character in the novel.





Based on what the reader knows about Daisy, what can be inferred about Gatsby’s motivation for arranging to meet Daisy at Nick’s home?



“He wants to know—’ continued Jordan ‘—if you’ll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over.’

The modesty of the demand shook me. He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed star-light to casual moths so that he could ‘come over’ some afternoon to a stranger’s garden.

‘Did I have to know all this before he could ask such a

little thing?’

‘He’s afraid. He’s waited so long. He thought you might be offended. You see he’s a regular tough underneath it all.’

Something worried me. ‘Why didn’t he ask you to arrange a meeting?’

‘He wants her to see his house,’ she explained. ‘And your

house is right next door.’"

Question 6 options:

Gatsby is worried that Daisy will be too worried about Tom's feelings if he reunites with her in her home.


Gatsby believes that Daisy will be impressed when she sees his large, expensive home.


Gatsby believes that Daisy does not want to go to Jordan’s home because it is too far away.


Gatsby is threatened by the idea that Daisy may like Nick better than she likes him if she compares their personalities instead of their homes.





Question 7 (5 points)
Examine the following passage from The Great Gatsby. What might the Valley of Ashes Symbolize?

This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Question 7 options:

The decay of a society that is focused too much on wealth


The remains of a volcano that took out everything regardless of its value


The highlight of the American Dream


The beaty that lies in pain and ugliness