Name Mrs. Ordway English 11 Date The Great Gatsby Reading and Study Guide Chapter 7 I.

Vocabulary: Be able to define the following words and understand them when they appear in the novel. portentous_______________________________________________________________ magnanimous ___________________________________________________________ formidable_______________________________________________________________ preseumptuous___________________________________________________________ inquest _________________________________________________________________ expostulation____________________________________________________________ II. Literary Terms: Be able to define each term and apply each term to the novel. Style:__________________________________________________________________ Examples of literary Style are: _____________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ III. Questionsplease, answer in complete sentences. 1. Who does Gatsby fire? 2. Gatsby says that Daisys voice is full of what? 3. Tom says he's the first man to ever make a stable out of a what? 4. Whats wrong with the weather? Too cold; too rainy; too windy; too hot; too humid; too dry 5. Who becomes physically sick when he finds out that his wife is cheating on himhe attempts to lock his wife in the house. 6. Biloxi claimed to have been president of what? 7. How long did Gatsby stay at Oxford? 5 hours; five days, five months, five semesters; five years 8. Whose birthday falls in chapter 7? 9. Who is killed in chapter 7? 10. Who is driving the Rolls Royce at the moment of the accident?

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11. Why is the weather so hot now? What is Fitzgerald symbolizing or enforcing with the weather? Make an inference, and fully explain and support your answer. 12. What structural elements are repeated in this chapter? In other words, what things happen in this chapter that has happened at earlier points in the novel? 13. Follow up: why does Fitzgerald repeat these ideas? Make an inference and fully explain and support your answer. 14. Why does Gatsby, on a deeper level, seem so uncomfortable with Daisys child? Fully explain and support your answer. 15. Why important thing about the plot is demonstrated when Tom lets Daisy drive home with Gatsbyeven though he knows she is having an affair with him? In other words, what does this tell us about Tom and Daisy? Go beyond a superficial answer here. 16. Nick suddenly mentions that he is thirty. Why? What is symbolic about thirty? 17. What ideas and character traits are established by Myrtles death? Fully explain and support your answer. 18. What ideas does Fitzgerald establish by having Gatsby watch the house to protect her while she is inside planning her escape from Gatsby? Fully explain and support your answer.

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