Gatsby Parties Quiz: West Egg Nights and the Green Light

This gatsby parties quiz drifts across a lawn full of music and lights. Play 10 interactive questions on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, new money in West Egg and old money in East Egg, narrator Nick Carraway next door, crates of oranges and an orchestra, guests who were never invited, the man in owl-eyed glasses in the library, the green light and the Prohibition era.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Author
Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
West
What kind of wealth does West Egg represent?
East
Where does Daisy Buchanan live?
Nick
Who narrates the story?
Why
Why does Gatsby throw his parties?
Guests
How did many guests come to the parties?
Owl
What surprises the man in the library?
Light
What does Gatsby gaze at across the water?
Era
Which era sets the novel?
Food
Which fruit arrives by the crate for parties?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Published in 1925.
Q2: What kind of wealth does West Egg represent?
Answer: New money
Gatsby lives there.
Q3: Where does Daisy Buchanan live?
Answer: East Egg
Old money.
Q4: Who narrates the story?
Answer: Nick Carraway
Gatsby's neighbor.
Q5: Why does Gatsby throw his parties?
Answer: Hoping Daisy will come
A lost love.
Q6: How did many guests come to the parties?
Answer: Without invitations
They simply showed up.
Q7: What surprises the man in the library?
Answer: The books are real
Pages uncut.
Q8: What does Gatsby gaze at across the water?
Answer: A green light on Daisy's dock
A symbol of longing.
Q9: Which era sets the novel?
Answer: The Jazz Age and Prohibition
1922.
Q10: Which fruit arrives by the crate for parties?
Answer: Oranges and lemons
Juiced by machine.

West Egg Nights

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, is set in 1922 during the Jazz Age and Prohibition. Narrator Nick Carraway rents a small house in West Egg, the home of new money, next door to the mysterious Jay Gatsby.

Gatsby throws lavish parties with an orchestra and crates of oranges and lemons juiced by machine. Many guests arrive without invitations. In the library, a man with owl-eyed glasses is amazed that the books are real, though their pages are uncut.

Gatsby throws his parties hoping Daisy Buchanan, who lives across the bay in old-money East Egg, will appear. He gazes at the green light on her dock, a symbol of his longing for the past.

What This Quiz Teaches

Book fans will enjoy these questions.

Who wrote the novel
Where Gatsby lives
Why he throws parties
Who attends
What the green light means

Did You Know?

Jordan Baker is a golf champion.
The Valley of Ashes lies between Eggs and city.
Gatsby's past is a mystery.
The novel entered the public domain in 2021.
Several films adapted the story.