American Studies Question

***** PLEASE READ THE GREAT GATSY AND WILDER. OUR TOWN. (ACT I,II,III.) COMPLETE ALL QUESTIONS:

1. The key to understanding Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is understanding that the 1920s is a period of?
2. Fitzgerald and his contemporaries were referred to as?
3. Fitzgerald presents the 1920s as a period of conflicting ideals when he states:
   “It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age os excess, and it was an age of satire.”
4. Jay Gatsby connects to the American Dream through:
5. The following best represents?
   “She’s got an indiscreet voice, …Her voice is full of money…”
6. Which best explains the following:
   Gatsby is to Daisy as Myrtle is to Tom.
7. Gatsby Sprang from his “…platonic conception of himself…” represents?
8. Nick Carraway is the only character to grow and develop inThe Great Gatsby.
9. Tom and Daisy represent:
10. As Old Money derived through birth and position Tom and Daisy connect to the Dream.
11. Regarding Tom and Daisy what is meant by Nick’s statement:
    “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together…”
12. The Green Light, the Golden Girl, the Holy Grail all represents:
13. Why is Daisy the location of Gatsby’s American Dream?
14. What privileges does Nick’s father refer to when he states:
    “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
15. The American Dream dies with Gatsby.
16. At the end of the novel Nick states:
    “—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. … And one fine morning—
    So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
17. The following statement about Gatsby represents:
    “It excited him too that many men had already loved Daisy—it increased her value in his eyes.”
18. The American Dream is re-realized in Nick’s return to his family and a city where houses are call through decades by a family’s name.
19. When considering Wilder’s Our Town it is best understood through which perspective:
20. Wilder’sOur Townis both a work of Sentimental Fiction and Social Satire.
21. As a work of social satire , Wilder’s Our Town
22. Regarding gender, inOur Townmen and women are expected to
23. Expectations of normalcy within Our Town are
24. Grover’s Corners represents diversity in terms of social class and construction of race.
25. The following assertion of Mrs. Webb demonstrates what value?
    “You know the rule’s well as I do—no books at table. As for me, I’d rather have my children healthy than bright.”
26. Simon Stimson’s assertion to Emily represents?
    “Yes, now you know. Now you know! That’s what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those…of those about you. To Be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know—that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.”
27. The following represents?
    “…both of those ladies cooked three meals a day—one of ‘em for twenty years, the other for forty—and not summer vacations. They brought up two children apiece, washed, cleaned the house,–and never a nervous breakdown.”
28. Our Town calls into question expectations of normalcy that limit the role of women.
    It has no room for those that don’t fit the look of theWebbsand Gibbs.
    And, it champions the limited view of small town values.
29. Being the only character to grow and develop in the novel, Nick realizes:
30. Nick and the reader are attracted to Gatsby because he represents some of the best qualities of the American Dream: commitment, readiness, hope, and possibility.