8.10 Unit Test: The Great Gatsby

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Listen, the question might be worded differently in the future though the answers could still be the same.
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also if you can't understand the book go to youtube and search "the great gatsby movie" and you'll see a user by the name of "Knowledge Builder". Go and F'ing click it, watch it, then read the book if u want
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Which literary movement that emerged after World War I included experimental techniques to capture and depict the contradictions and complexities of life?
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Modernism
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Why were young people who came of age in the first decades of the 1900s, as writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway did, dubbed the Lost Generation?
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They had lost their faith in the goodness of humanity as a result of the violence of World War I.
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The Great Gatsby highlights __________.
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the empty materialism that is damaging American society
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Nick Carraway is the narrator of The Great Gatsby, which means that readers __________.
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view the events of the novel through the filter of his eyes and his opinions
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Nick's assertion that he is one of the few __________ people he has ever known is questionable in light of his behavior at several points in the novel.
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honest
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What does Gatsby suggest when he describes Daisy's voice as being "full of money"?
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He suggests that her wealth is a defining and intrinsic aspect of her character.
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How do readers view Tom Buchanan as a result of his behavior in the novel's opening chapter?
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Readers immediately recognize that Tom is a cruel bully.
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Gatsby throws lavish parties that are well attended, but the mood of these affairs is generally one of __________.
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carefree but false happiness
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The different ways that Daisy and Gatsby reacted when challenging circumstances threatened their relationship as Gatsby tried to get home from Europe after World War I demonstrate __________.
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Gatsby's determination and Daisy's weakness
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Which of the following is a symbol of Daisy, money, and past happiness in The Great Gatsby?
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the green light at the end of Daisy's dock
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When Gatsby tells him about the things like his time at Oxford, his medals for his service in the war, and his time living "like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe," Nick feels __________.
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as though Gatsby is lying, and he dislikes him
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What do the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg come to represent in the novel?
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the eyes of God
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In The Great Gatsby, car accidents come to represent the __________ of the novel's characters.
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carelessness
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What is Gatsby's attitude toward the forward march of time?
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He rejects it, fully believing that it is possible to recapture the past.
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At the end of the novel, Nick returns to the Midwest because __________.
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he has come to associate the East with the ugliness of human nature and moral corruption