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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Gatsby doing the first time Nick sees him?
(a) Looking up at the stars and trembling.
(b) Strolling arm-in-arm with a young lady.
(c) Driving his sports car.
(d) Drinking brandy on his front lawn.

2. What does Nick see in Gatsby’s smile?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Sarcasm.
(c) Eternal reassurance.
(d) Pride.

3. Whom does Myrtle invite up to the apartment while Nick is visiting?
(a) Mrs. Eberhardt.
(b) George Wilson.
(c) Daisy.
(d) Her sister Catherine and Mr. and Mrs. McKee.

4. What is Daisy’s reaction when she hears that she gave birth to a little girl?
(a) She claps her hands with joy.
(b) She says that she knows her baby will grow up to be brilliant.
(c) She says it is the happiest day of her life.
(d) She cries and says that she hopes her baby grows up to be a fool.

5. What does Nick call the desolate area where the road meets the railroad and is located between West Egg and New York?
(a) Gray gardens.
(b) Valley of ashes.
(c) Land of ash.
(d) Valley of sadness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nick hear coming from Gatsby’s home on summer nights?

2. What does Catherine confide to Nick regarding Myrtle and Tom?

3. Whom does the narrator visit at the beginning of his first summer in his new residence?

4. What type of house do the narrator’s old friends live in?

5. When the narrator returns from the East, what does he hope not to see again?

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