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This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 119 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Great Gatsby Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 119 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. How does the narrator describe Tom Buchanan’s body?
(a) A cruel body.
(b) Skeletal.
(c) Obese.
(d) Effeminate.

2. How does Nick feel as he walks among the affluent guests at Gatsby’s mansion?
(a) Right at home.
(b) Jealous.
(c) Annoyed at the visiting Englishmen.
(d) Ill at ease.

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

4. Which of the following adjectives best describes Mr. Wilson?
(a) Spiritless.
(b) Jubilant.
(c) Outgoing.
(d) Aggressive.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nick hear coming from Gatsby’s home on summer nights?

2. What gossip does Miss Baker share with Nick when Daisy leaves the room?

3. Who is the slender young woman with the charming face that emanates discontent whom Nick meets at dinner with the Buchanan’s?

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

5. How does Nick feel when he senses Daisy’s insincerity and sees the smirk on her face?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Gatsby tell Nick about Meyer Wolfsheim when they have lunch together?

4. How does Nick Carraway know Daisy and Tom Buchanan?

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

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

7. What are three of the stories Nick hears about Gatsby’s past while he is at Gatsby’s mansion?

8. What do Nick and Gatsby talk about the first time they meet at Gatsby’s party?

9. What does Catherine, Mrs. Wilson’s sister, tell Nick about Gatsby?

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

(see the answer keys)

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