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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Jordan’s escort to Gatsby’s party?
(a) A golf champion.
(b) A persistent undergraduate.
(c) A college professor.
(d) A banker.

2. What do the young ladies at Gatsby’s lawn party speculate about his line of work?
(a) He is a banker.
(b) He is a gigolo.
(c) He is a bootlegger.
(d) He invests in bonds.

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

4. What object does Nick remind Daisy of?
(a) Driftwood.
(b) Petrified wood.
(c) A rose.
(d) Granite slab.

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

6. What is the name of the young soldier Daisy dated in 1917?
(a) Tom Buchanan.
(b) Cecil Roebuck.
(c) Jay Gatsby.
(d) Nick Carraway.

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

8. What does Myrtle Wilson buy from an old man as she waits in a taxicab in New York City?
(a) A bouquet of roses.
(b) A puppy.
(c) The daily newspaper.
(d) A roasted chestnut.

9. What does Gatsby want Jordan Baker to ask Nick?
(a) To invite Tom and Gatsby to dinner.
(b) To have a picnic with Gatsby and Jordan.
(c) To tell Gatsby what Nick thinks of him.
(d) To invite Daisy and Gatsby to dinner.

10. Where does a call for Gatsby come from while he is talking with Nick?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Chicago.
(d) California.

11. Who has lunch with Gatsby and Nick in the Forty-Second Street cellar?
(a) Mr. Wilson.
(b) Miss Baker.
(c) Mr. Carraway.
(d) Mr. Wolfsheim.

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

13. 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.

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

15. What do the two girls in yellow say to Jordan when they see her at Gatsby’s party?
(a) They tell her that she looks stunning.
(b) They say that they are sorry she did not win her golf tournament.
(c) They ask her to introduce them to Nick.
(d) They congratulate her for winning the golf tournament.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Nick angry with Gatsby as they drive in Gatsby’s fancy car?

2. What does Gatsby tell Nick about his time in the war?

3. Which of the following best describes Myrtle’s sister?

4. What lie does Catherine tell about Daisy?

5. What is Daisy’s reaction when she hears that she gave birth to a little girl?

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