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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Tom’s acquaintances feel about him bringing a mistress to popular restaurants?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Resentment.
(c) Disgust.
(d) Hilarity.

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

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

4. Which of the following best describes Myrtle’s sister?
(a) Slender and worldly.
(b) Thin and sickly.
(c) Obese and sweaty.
(d) Slender and naive.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What career does the narrator decide to pursue after he returns from the Great War?

2. How does Nick describe Mrs. Wilson?

3. How does Catherine feel about Gatsby?

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

5. What does Myrtle Wilson buy from an old man as she waits in a taxicab in New York City?

(see the answer key)

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