Q 01/05

Who wrote The Great Gatsby?

A) Ernest Hemingway

B) John Steinbeck

C) F. Scott Fitzgerald

D) Sinclair Lewis

Answer · why

C) F. Scott Fitzgerald

His full name was Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, after the distant cousin who wrote the words to The Star-Spangled Banner.

Q 02/05

In which year was The Great Gatsby first published?

A) 1931

B) 1927

C) 1929

D) 1925

Answer · why

D) 1925

Charles Scribner's Sons released it on April 10; the story itself is set three years earlier, in the summer of 1922.

Q 03/05

Who narrates The Great Gatsby?

A) Jay Gatsby

B) Tom Buchanan

C) Nick Carraway

D) Jordan Baker

Answer · why

C) Nick Carraway

He is 29 when the story begins and turns 30 during it, a birthday he only remembers in the middle of the Plaza Hotel row.

Q 04/05

Which fictional Long Island community does Gatsby live in?

A) East Egg

B) North Egg

C) West Egg

D) South Egg

Answer · why

C) West Egg

The 'new money' peninsula was modelled on Great Neck, where Fitzgerald himself lived; the Buchanans' 'old money' side was Port Washington.

Q 05/05

What colour is the light at the end of Daisy's dock that Gatsby stares at across the bay?

A) Red

B) White

C) Green

D) Blue

Answer · why

C) Green

Nick first sees Gatsby alone on his lawn reaching toward it, and it closes the book as the symbol of everything he cannot reach.