Ron's ESOL Classroom
Advanced Reading/Vocabulary
The Great Gatsby
Chapter Two
Vocabulary
- transcend (27)
- oculist (27)
- contiguous (29)
- cower (31)
- airedale (32)
- pastoral (32)
- haughty (33)
- apathetic (33)
- ectoplasm (34)
- hauteur (35)
- flounce (36)
- gypped (pp of gyp) (38)
- kyke (38)
Study Questions
- Who is Dr. T.J. Eckleberg?
- What is the "valley"?
- Who are George and Myrtle Wilson?
- When is this chapter taking place?
- Explain the following sentences that Nick thinks on the top of
page 40. "Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have
contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the
darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was
within and without..."
- How did Myrtle and Tom meet?
- What happened to Myrtle at the end of the chapter and why?
) 1998 Ron Corio and Nichole McVeigh
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