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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Tom Buchanan’s body?
(a) Skeletal.
(b) Obese.
(c) A cruel body.
(d) Effeminate.

2. When Nick finds out Miss Baker’s name is Jordan, where does he remember seeing her before?
(a) In his mother’s photo album.
(b) Sports pictures from Asheville, Hot Springs and Palm Beach.
(c) At the bank where he works.
(d) Newspaper gossip columns from the Midwest.

3. What career does the narrator decide to pursue after he returns from the Great War?
(a) The bond business.
(b) Become a coffee merchant.
(c) Acting.
(d) Art.

4. What does Nick observe from his home as he gazes at Mr. Gatsby’s mansion during summer days?
(a) Guests swimming, boating and sunning.
(b) Mr. Gatsby reading quietly.
(c) A few guests strolling in the garden.
(d) Mr. Gatsby on his beach alone.

5. How does Nick remember years later, the celebrities and other affluent people who visited Gatsby’s mansion in the summer of 1922?
(a) He has a photographic memory.
(b) He took photographs of every guest.
(c) He writes a timetable of names.
(d) He contacts Gatsby’s domestic help from 1922.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nick decide not to call out to Gatsby when he sees him standing outside?

2. What is Daisy’s condition the day before her wedding?

3. What is Myrtle’s opinion of her servants?

4. What is Gatsby doing the first time Nick sees him?

5. What does Gatsby tell Nick is one of his family’s traditions?

(see the answer key)

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