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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 is Tom Buchanan’s view of racial equality?
(a) Civilizations would thrive if all the races worked together as brothers.
(b) The inferior races are Nordic.
(c) All races are equal.
(d) If the dominant white race does not remain alert, the inferior races will take over.

2. What view does the narrator have from his new home?
(a) City lights and traffic.
(b) The water, his neighbor’s lawn and the mansions of millionaires.
(c) An elementary school and a bus stop.
(d) A wharf with fishing boats coming and going.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Gatsby buy his mansion on the bay?

3. What is Mrs. Wilson’s reaction when Mrs. McKee compliments her dress?

4. What does Gatsby’s luncheon guest reveal about an event that took place at the Metropole?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the man with the owl eyes reveal to Nick and Jordan when they meet him in Gatsby’s library?

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

5. What does Jordan Baker say about the phone call Tom receives during dinner?

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

7. Why did Gatsby buy his house in West Egg?

8. How did Nick first meet Tom’s mistress, Myrtle Wilson?

9. Why is it unusual that Nick was personally invited to one of Gatsby’s parties?

10. What is Daisy’s emotional and physical condition on the day she married Tom Buchanan?

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