The Great Gatsby Chapter Questions
Chapter 4
(Responses should be a minimum of three to five sentences each.)
1. What do you find is the most crucial in the plot in Chapter 4?
2. What does Gatsby tell Nick about himself?
3. According to Jordan, what did Daisy do on her wedding day? Why?
4. Why does Gatsby want to have tea with Daisy in Nick’s house? Why doesn’t Gatsby ask Nick for this favor himself?
5. How does Daisy behave after Gatsby goes overseas? What does her behavior show about her feelings for Gatsby? Use a quotation from the book to justify your answer.
Chapter 5
(Responses should be a minimum of three to five sentences each.)
1. What do you find is the most crucial in the plot in Chapter 5?
2. What is the meeting between Gatsby and Daisy like initially?
3. How are Daisy and Gatsby different when Nick returns to the house after a half an hour?
4. What are Gatsby’s feeling by the end of the chapter?
5. Why do you think Daisy sobs when Gatsby shows her his shirts? Use a quotation from the book to justify your answer.
6. What is the weather like in this chapter? How does it reflect the emotional climate of Gatsby and Daisy? Use a quotation from the book to justify your answer.
Chapter 6
(Responses should be a minimum of three to five sentences each.)
1. What do you find is the most crucial in the plot in Chapter 6?
2. When does James Gatz change his name? Why?
3. What is Daisy’s real response to the party, according to Nick?
4. What does Gatsby tell Nick he wants Daisy to do?
5. What is Nick’s view of the past? Use a quotation from the book to justify your answer.
Chapter 7
(Responses should be a minimum of three to five sentences each.)
1. What do you find is the most crucial in the plot of Chapter 7?
2. Why does Gatsby stop giving parties?
3. When does Tom first realize that Daisy loves Gatsby?
4. Why is Myrtle Wilson upset when she sees Tom and Jordan? Use a quotation from the book to justify your answer.
5. Why does George Wilson lock Myrtle in the bedroom?
6. At the end of the chapter, Gatsby is standing alone, looking out at Daisy’s house. Where else in the novel does he do this? How is this different? Use a quotation from the book to justify your answer.
Chapter 8
(Responses should be a minimum of three to five sentences each.)
1. What do you find is the most crucial in the plot of Chapter 8?
2. What does Gatsby tell Nick the night of the accident? Why?
3. How does George Wilson spend the night after the accident?
4. What evidence has Wilson found that his wife was having an affair?
5. What do the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg symbolize to George Wilson? Use a quotation from the book to justify your answer.
Chapter 9
(Responses should be a minimum of three to five sentences each.)
1. What do you find is the most crucial in the plot of Chapter 9?
2. What is the motive publicly given for Wilson’s murder of Gatsby?
3. What does the telephone call from Chicago tell us about Gatsby’s business?
4. Why is Gatsby’s father so proud of him?
5. How does Nick characterize Tom and Daisy at the end of the book? Use at least one quotation from the book to justify your answer.
6. What does the green light symbolize at the end of the novel? Use a quotation from the book to justify your answer.
FINAL QUESTION: (Your response should be a minimum of four to five sentences in length.)
Discuss the elements of the Jazz Age that Fitzgerald includes in The Great Gatsby.
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