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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Gray gardens.
(c) Valley of sadness.
(d) Valley of ashes.

2. What does Gatsby tell Nick about his time in the war?
(a) He tried hard to die.
(b) He was never promoted.
(c) He was afraid most of the time.
(d) He did not see any action.

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

4. What does Nick realize about Jordan’s personality the more he sees her?
(a) She is dishonest.
(b) She is honest.
(c) She is hateful.
(d) She is shallow.

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 contacts Gatsby’s domestic help from 1922.
(b) He took photographs of every guest.
(c) He writes a timetable of names.
(d) He has a photographic memory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gatsby want Jordan Baker to ask Nick?

2. Why does Gatsby drift toward strangers?

3. What do the young ladies at Gatsby’s lawn party speculate about his line of work?

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

5. What tumultuous event happens not far from Gatsby’s mansion after the party?

(see the answer key)

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