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Grades 11–12 · Literature

Literature quiz, Grades 11–12: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

This quiz helps revise “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby” in Literature for grades 11–12. It has 25 questions in five categories: People & Reinvention, Wealth & Place, Plot & Choices, Symbols & Meanings, Voice & Context. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 16–18
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

People & Reinvention

  1. 100

    Who narrates The Great Gatsby?

  2. 200

    Which married woman is Gatsby determined to win back?

  3. 300

    Which competitive golfer becomes…

    In the game
  4. 400

    What birth name does…

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  5. 500

    Which wealthy yachtsman employs…

    In the game

Wealth & Place

  1. 100Picture for the question

    The novel's wealthy coastal suburbs and Manhattan scenes are set in which American state?

  2. 200

    In which fictional community does Gatsby live, across the bay from the more fashionable shore?

  3. 300

    What two-word term for…

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  4. 400

    What is the name…

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  5. 500

    Which hotel, pictured here…

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Plot & Choices

  1. 100

    What lavish social events does Gatsby host in hopes that his former love will appear?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    What social occasion does the narrator arrange at his cottage to reunite Gatsby with his former love?

  3. 300

    After the fatal car…

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  4. 400

    What does Gatsby insist…

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  5. 500

    Which unnamed guest from…

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Symbols & Meanings

  1. 100

    What color is the distant dock light that Gatsby reaches toward across the bay?

  2. 200

    What expensive clothes make the woman Gatsby pursues cry when he displays piles of them?

  3. 300

    Which national ideal of…

    In the game
  4. 400

    Whom does George Wilson…

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  5. 500

    In the novel's final…

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Voice & Context

  1. 100

    In which decade is the novel's main action set?

  2. 200

    What American policy banning the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks forms the backdrop to Gatsby's world?

  3. 300

    Which point of view…

    In the game
  4. 400

    What narrative technique reveals…

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  5. 500

    What quality of the…

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  3. Choose questions on the board, buzz in first and collect points.

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