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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What arrives from New York to Gatsby’s house every Friday?
(a) Five crates of bananas and limes.
(b) Five crates of oranges and lemons.
(c) Five crates of apples and pears.
(d) Five crates of bananas and oranges.

2. What is Myrtle’s opinion of her servants?
(a) She has to keep after them all the time.
(b) They are hard workers.
(c) She is grateful to have them.
(d) They are trustworthy people.

3. 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 has a photographic memory.
(c) He writes a timetable of names.
(d) He took photographs of every guest.

4. How does Catherine feel about Gatsby?
(a) She thinks he is selfish.
(b) She is falling in love with him.
(c) She finds him boring.
(d) She is afraid of him.

5. What is one of the rumors about Gatsby that his guests talk about?
(a) He once killed someone.
(b) He dislikes children.
(c) He has a secret wife.
(d) He had a nervous breakdown.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the narrator rent a house when he goes east?

3. What is the name of the young soldier Daisy dated in 1917?

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

5. What does Nick see in Gatsby’s smile?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Myrtle Wilson come to own an Airedale puppy?

2. What is Catherine’s opinion of Tom’s and Myrtle’s marriages?

3. Where did Nick Carraway attend college and what profession does he plan to pursue?

4. What is Tom’s reaction when Myrtle defies his command not to mention Daisy’s name?

5. How does Nick describe Gatsby’s manner when he picks Nick up for lunch in his splendid car?

6. What does Nick see in Gatsby’s smile the first time they meet?

7. What does Jordan Baker tell Nick about Daisy when they meet for tea at the Plaza Hotel?

8. What is the request that Gatsby asks Jordan to make to Nick?

9. What does Gatsby tell Nick about his life as they drive to lunch?

10. What does the narrator, Nick Carraway, reveal in the first chapter about how he judges other people?

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