The Great Gatsby -- Chapter 9 Questions

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*The Great Gatsby -- Chapter 9 Questions.  Please copy the following questions into your ENGLISH JOURNAL and complete by the end of the period.

Chapter 9

1.  What surprises Nick about the days following Gatsby's death?
2.  Who is Henry Gatz?  What are some of the things that he says about Gatsby as a young man.
3.   What is significant about the daily schedule that Gatsby recorded on the back 
       of Hopalong Cassidy?
 4.  What are your feelings when you learn why Klipspringer calls?
5.  What additional information about Gatsby do we learn from Nick's meeting with Wolfshiem?
6.  What is the significance of Owl Eyes attending the graveside service?
7.   Describe the contrast between the East and the Midwest that Nick describes.
8.  What does Jordan tell Nick when they meet at a later time? 
9.  What does Nick say about people like Daisy and Tom?
10.  Explain the parallel of Gatsby's dream to the American Dream?
11. Explain the last line of the novel: "So we beat on, boasts against the current, borne back ceaselessly
       into the past."
12. What did you like best about Gatsby?
13.  A descriptive line:
14.  A meaningful line:
15.  An interesting detail:

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