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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. Why is Nick angry with Gatsby as they drive in Gatsby’s fancy car?
(a) Gatsby flaunts his money.
(b) Nick does not like mysteries.
(c) Gatsby insults Nick.
(d) Gatsby insults Jordan Baker.

2. What does Nick realize as Gatsby continues telling him about his past?
(a) Gatsby has an interesting past.
(b) Gatsby is being truthful.
(c) Gatsby’s life is boring.
(d) Gatsby is lying.

3. What does Nick call the desolate area where the road meets the railroad and is located between West Egg and New York?
(a) Valley of ashes.
(b) Gray gardens.
(c) Valley of sadness.
(d) Land of ash.

4. Why does Tom slap Mrs. Wilson, breaking her nose?
(a) She insults his career.
(b) She mentions Daisy’s name.
(c) She says that he is not a gentleman.
(d) She insults his career.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Tom’s acquaintances feel about him bringing a mistress to popular restaurants?

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

3. How does the narrator describe Tom Buchanan’s body?

4. Where did Mr. McKee take the two photographs displayed in the downstairs apartment?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Nick describe the Valley of Ashes?

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

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

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

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

8. What are Tom’s views on minority races?

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

10. What is Myrtle’s opinion of her husband?

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