This board helps players review Literature · F. Scott Fitzgerald through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Characters, Setting & Plot, Symbols, Themes, Quotes & Trivia. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.
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The novel's narrator.
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Nick Carraway
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Decade the novel is set in.
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The 1920s (Jazz Age)
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The light at the end of Daisy's dock.
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Green light (Gatsby's hopes/dreams)
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Central American theme — Gatsby's quest embodies it.
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The American Dream (and its corruption)
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Year published.
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1925
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The narrative point of view of the novel.
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First-person (Nick Carraway)
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Board content
Characters
- $100 — The novel's narrator.
- Nick Carraway
- $200 — The mysterious millionaire host of lavish parties.
- Jay Gatsby (James Gatz)
- $300 — The woman Gatsby loves; Nick's cousin.
- Daisy Buchanan
- $400 — Daisy's wealthy, brutish husband.
- Tom Buchanan
- $500 — Tom's working-class mistress.
- Myrtle Wilson
Setting & Plot
- $100 — Decade the novel is set in.
- The 1920s (Jazz Age)
- $200 — Fictional Long Island town where Gatsby and Nick live.
- West Egg
- $300 — The wealthier old-money town across the bay.
- East Egg
- $400 — Region between Long Island and NYC, full of ashes.
- Valley of Ashes
- $500 — Who kills Myrtle with a car.
- Daisy (driving Gatsby's car)
Symbols
- $100 — The light at the end of Daisy's dock.
- Green light (Gatsby's hopes/dreams)
- $200 — Giant fading billboard eyes that watch over the Valley of Ashes.
- Eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg
- $300 — What the Valley of Ashes symbolizes.
- Moral decay / cost of wealth
- $400 — Color often associated with Gatsby's wealth and illusion.
- Gold (and yellow)
- $500 — Color associated with Daisy's innocence (and false purity).
- White
Themes
- $100 — Central American theme — Gatsby's quest embodies it.
- The American Dream (and its corruption)
- $200 — Division between East Egg and West Egg shows this conflict.
- Old money vs. new money
- $300 — Theme of recapturing what is gone.
- The past / nostalgia
- $400 — Moral state of the wealthy characters.
- Carelessness / emptiness
- $500 — What the green light ultimately represents about dreams.
- They are always just out of reach
Quotes & Trivia
- $100 — Year published.
- 1925
- $200 — Famous last line: 'So we beat on, boats against the ___.'
- Current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
- $300 — Gatsby's nickname for Nick.
- Old sport
- $400 — Who shoots Gatsby.
- George Wilson
- $500 — Who attends Gatsby's funeral besides Nick and his father.
- Almost no one (Owl Eyes)
Author & Context
- $100 — The narrative point of view of the novel.
- First-person (Nick Carraway)
- $200 — The post-WWI cultural era the novel critiques.
- The Roaring Twenties / Jazz Age
- $300 — Constitutional amendment that fuels bootleggers like Gatsby.
- 18th (Prohibition)
- $400 — Fitzgerald's wife, often linked to Daisy.
- Zelda Fitzgerald
- $500 — Real Long Island town often cited as inspiration for West Egg.
- Great Neck
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