Gatsby Ch 5-7
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The Great Gatsby Chapter 7 Review
1. What happened to Gatsby’s servants? ___________________________________________
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2. What does Tom say about family life?
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3. What does Gatsby tell Tom in the heat of the argument that Daisy doesn’t want him to say?
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4. What does Tom say about Daisy, now?
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5. Daisy admits what to Tom?_____________________________________________________
6. What is Tom going to do from now on in regards to
Daisy?_____________________________________________________________________
7. Look at the paragraph that begins “It passed, and he began to talk excitedly to Daisy, . . . What
is now Gatsby’s reality?
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8. Why do you now think that Tom thinks it is okay for Daisy to ride with Gatsby in Gatsby’s car
back to the Buchanan home?
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9. How old is Nick? ______________
a. What does his age symbolize? _____________________________________________
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b. How does his age match Gatsby’s current feelings/emotions?
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10. Where does Wilson have Myrtle? ________________________________________________
11. What is Myrtle yelling down to George? ___________________________________________
12. What happened to Myrtle? _____________________________________________________
13. Who does Wilson think it was? __________________________________________________
Gatsby Ch 5-7
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14. Who does Tom think it was? ____________________________________________________
15. Who was it? _________________________________________________________________
16. Why is Gatsby standing outside of the Buchanan home? ______________________________
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17. According to the Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms, “a similar sense of detached
superiority is achieved by dramatic/tragic irony, in which the audience knows more about a
character’s situation than the character does, foreseeing an outcome contrary to the
character’s expectations” (130).
a. What is the dramatic/tragic irony in Chapter 7? (HINT: think of Gatsby’s dream and what
happened in the chapter.) Use the space below.