All About Jordan Trivia Quiz

Answer: lying on a sofa with Daisy

Jordan Baker is an old friend of Daisy Buchanan, from their childhood in Louisville, Kentucky. Both Daisy (a cousin of narrator Nick Carraway) and Jordan are dressed in white. Jordan is holding her chin up "...as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall." Nick soon falls for Jordan. The chin-balancing gesture is a mannerism of Jordan's.

Answer: "Absolutely!"

In the first chapter, when Nick converses with Daisy's husband, the boorish and brutal Tom Buchanan, a mention of the bond company Nick works for comes up.

"Never heard of them", Tom replies when Nick tells tom his company's name. (We don't learn the company's name, though)

"You will", the annoyed Nick shoots back, "You will if you stay in the East."

The provincial Tom rejoins "Oh, I'll stay in the East, don't you worry. I'd be a...fool to live anywhere else."

It's then that Jordan, silent up to then, says "Absolutely!", her first line of dialogue in the book. Its suddenness startles Nick.

"Fiddle-Dee-Dee!" is the catchphrase of Scarlett O'Hara of "Gone With The Wind". The other answers are made-up.

Answer: Tom has a mistress

When Tom is summoned for a "business call" on the phone, Jordan tells Nick Tom has a mistress. The mistress is, of course, Myrtle Wilson, who is cheating on her dim-bulb hubby George with Tom. Jordan says "You mean to say you don't know? I thought everybody knew...She (Myrtle) might have the decency not to phone him (Tom) at dinner-time." Here we get our first glimpse at Jordan's cynicism in her acceptance of the affair. (And of course Nick couldn't know about Tom and Myrtle!)

In one of the novel's most famous scenes, an enraged Tom breaks Myrtle's nose when she mentions Daisy's name in an arguement at a New York party. Later, Tom dares denounce the platonic affair of Jay Gatsby and Daisy when he's been cheating on his wife!

Answer: Golf

The 1920s were when America began to be obsessed with professional sports and athletes. Red Grange, Babe Ruth, and Bobby Jones were some of the top sports stars of the era. Fitzgerald himself named Jordan Baker for two prominent women golfers.

In a later chapter, Nick learns that Meyer Wolfsheim, Gatsby's "business associate" is the real man behind the 1919 Chicago White Sox scandal, where eight players lost the World Series for gamblers. (The book and movie "Eight Men Out" chronicles the event)

Answer: she cheated at golf

In Chapter Three we learn that Jordan is rumored to have illegally moved her ball in her first pro game. Nick tells us "A caddy retracted his statement and the only other witness admitted that he might have been mistaken." We never learn if the accusation against Jordan is true or not, but it casts a shadow over her character.

Answer: she's a bad driver

At the end of Chapter Three, Jordan "passed so close to some workman that our fender flicked a button on some man's coat."

In the little arguement between them about her careless driving, Jordan defends herself, "Well, other people are (careful)...They'll keep out of my way. It takes two to make an accident."

"Suppose you met somebody just as careless as yourself" Nick counters.

"I hope I never will" she replies, "I hate careless people. That's why I like you." Jordan refuses any responsibility for her actions!

At the novel's climax, Daisy accidentally runs over and kills her husband's mistress, Myrtle, giving the above dialogue a darkly ironic sheen.

Answer: get drunk after reading a letter from Gatsby

At the end of Chapter Four Nick and Jordan have a luncheon at New York's Plaza Hotel. Jordan is relating that she was bridesmaid to her friend when she married Tom. The day before the wedding, she saw Daisy drunk and in tears, having just read a letter. The letter, it's hinted, is from her former beau Gatsby; obviously, he knew she wouldn't marry him as he was poor, so he wanted to get a fortune. His saying we was going away in the letter devastated Daisy. But she sobered up the next day and married Tom.

Even though Daisy still harbors feelings about Gatsby, the shallow socialite remains with Tom and his money, especially when the illicit origin of Gatsby's fortune is revealed.

The autogyro is a cousin to the helicopter, having both front propeller and upright rotors. (And I thought drinking whisky from a conch shell was original!)

Answer: Central Park

In Chapter Four's final scene, Nick and Jordan ride a carriage through Central Park. Despite her cynicism, Nick is falling for Jordan. It's implied Nick will kiss Jordan in the chapter's last sentence: "Her wan scornful mouth smiled and so I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face."

Answer: Tom and Nick

Daisy prefers to drive with Gatsby, infuriating Tom, in Chapter Seven. Jordan goes with Tom and Nick in Gatsby's car, Tom driving. This is the chapter where Tom exposes the truth about Gatsby when Gatsby says Daisy will leave Tom. Later, Nick learns Daisy killed Myrtle in the car accident, not Gatsby.

But Tom will lie to the grief-crazed George that Gatsby was to blame, so George will kill Gatsby.

Answer: overripe

Riding to New York, Jordan remarks, "I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it-overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands."

The observation about fruits falling, I think, connotes the Garden of Eden and the forbidden fruit.

Answer: Tom's mistress thinks Jordan is his wife

Looking down from a window, Myrtle sees Jordan in the car with Tom and thinks she's Tom wife Daisy, whom she's never met. Jordan doesn't pay for gas or tell George about Tom and Myrtle. And gullible George obviously thinks Tom's single!

Answer: False

Shaken by the accident and the reactions to it, Nick is finally disgusted with the rich of Long Island. "I'd had enough of them for one day and suddenly that included Jordan too. She must have seen something of this in my expression for she turned abruptly away and ran up the porch steps into the house." Outside, Nicks learns from Gatsby that it was Daisy who killed Myrtle. Gatsby is the one person in the book Nick comes to like, and in his famous line in Chapter Eight he tells Gatsby, "They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."

Answer: she's engaged to another man

In the last chapter Nick goes to Jordan one last time. She's dressed for a match and tells Nick she's engaged. Nick sees he's really meant nothing to Jordan and she's as shallow and immature as the Buchanans and the rest of the idle rich.

Answer: they shake hands

After shaking hands, Jordan remarks about Nick saying she was a bad driver. "You said a bad driver was safe until she met another bad driver? Well I met another bad driver, didn't I?" Her apparent disregard for her friend Daisy and Myrtle's death only adds to Nick's breaking off with her. Jordan symbolizes the lack of emotional depth that characterizes the Buchanans and all other rich people outside of Gatsby.

Answer: True

In Chapter Three, at Gatsby's first party, Jordan places a call to her elderly aunt, her only living relative, Miss Sigourney Howard (perhaps named by Fitzgerald after his friend, Father Sigourey Fay, a Roman Catholic priest). Actress Susan Weaver took the first name from "Gatsby" and became Sigourney Weaver, best known for her role in the "Alien" sci-fi movie trilogy.

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