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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Gatsby’s birth name?

2. What is Daisy’s emotional state as the day goes on?

3. Why can’t Nick get through to Gatsby on the phone after his conversation with Jordan?

4. What is the stain on the workbench in Wilson’s garage?

5. Why does Daisy begin to cry as Gatsby shows her his many shirts?

Short Essay Questions

1. What becomes of Gatsby and Mr. Wilson at the end of Chapter 8?

2. Why does Jay Gatsby decide to tell Nick about how Gatsby and Daisy fell in love?

3. Why is Tom feeling panicked as he and Nick drive away from Wilson’s garage in Chapter 7?

4. Why does Daisy begin crying when Gatsby shows her all his colorful shirts?

5. What does Gatsby discover about Daisy when he returns home from Oxford?

6. Why is Gatsby in a hurry to get home to New York while he is at Oxford?

7. What are the three stages of emotion Gatsby experiences on the night he meets Daisy again for the first time?

8. What does Nick say to Gatsby as he is leaving him for the last time?

9. The morning after Mrs. Wilson’s death, why does Nick jump out of bed and go over to Gatsby’s when he hears a taxi pull into Gatsby’s driveway?

10. What is the significance of the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Summarize how F. Scott Fitzgerald uses local color and imagery to describe Gatsby’s mansion. Cite descriptive examples of rooms, décor, landscaping, and his view of the harbor. Does the imagery Fitzgerald uses depict a clear and accurate picture of the mansion and the surrounding landscape?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the complex irony in the circumstances surrounding the death of Jay Gatsby. Describe this irony as it relates to Tom and Daisy, Mr. Wilson and Gatsby’s military career. How important is irony to the final events of the story?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the resolution of the story as it relates to each of the main characters in the novel. Explain the metamorphosis each character experiences in the final three chapters. Describe how Nick’s words ” So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”, relate to Jay Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, and Nick.

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