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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What lie does Catherine tell about Daisy?
(a) She is a thief.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She is a Catholic.
(d) She was married before.

2. What does Nick think the young Englishmen at Gatsby’s party are selling?
(a) Bonds, insurance or automobiles.
(b) Bonds, real estate or automobiles.
(c) Insurance, jewelry or gold bricks.
(d) Real estate, insurance or clothing.

3. Where does Catherine tell Nick that Mr. Gatsby acquired his wealth?
(a) Oil investments.
(b) Kaiser Wilhelm.
(c) Gambling.
(d) His father.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Mr. McKee take the two photographs displayed in the downstairs apartment?

2. How does the narrator describe Tom Buchanan’s body?

3. What comment does the stout, middle-aged man that Nick and Jordan meet in the library say about Gatsby’s books?

4. How does the narrator describe his cousin’s face?

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

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