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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Catherine confide to Nick regarding Myrtle and Tom?
(a) They should continue their current arrangement.
(b) They should get married.
(c) They should be ashamed of their unfaithfulness.
(d) They should stop seeing one another.

2. Where does the narrator rent a house when he goes east?
(a) East Egg.
(b) Upper Manhattan.
(c) New York City.
(d) Long Island Sound.

3. What is Tom’s response when Nick asks if Mr. Wilson objects to Tom seeing Mrs. Wilson?
(a) Her husband does not care what she does.
(b) Her husband is too dumb to even know she is alive.
(c) Her husband has his own mistress.
(d) Her husband has an open mind.

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

5. What advice did the narrator’s father give him when he was a child that he still remembers as an adult?
(a) Only criticize people who are below your station in life.
(b) Think before criticizing people because many have not had the advantages you have.
(c) Always criticize people who make ignorant comments.
(d) Criticize people that do not live up to your expectations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nick call the desolate area where the road meets the railroad and is located between West Egg and New York?

2. How does Catherine feel about Gatsby?

3. Which of the following adjectives best describes Mr. Wilson?

4. When Nick finds out Miss Baker’s name is Jordan, where does he remember seeing her before?

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

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