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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 does Gatsby say when Tom confronts him about Daisy?

2. Where were the first places Cody and Gatsby sailed to after Gatsby was hired by Cody?

3. What does Tom hear Daisy telling Gatsby?

4. How does Gatsby feel about women?

5. What does Nick tell Gatsby about his behavior at tea?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Daisy do during her tea party after she sends Tom out of the room to make drinks?

2. When does Gatsby change his name from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby, and what event causes the name change?

3. In Chapter 7, why does Nick go over to Gatsby’s mansion to see if Gatsby is sick?

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

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

6. As time passes while Gatsby is attending Oxford, what does Daisy do?

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

8. Why does Daisy’s voice entrance Gatsby?

9. When Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy does not understand him the way she used to, what is Nick’s reply?

10. When Daisy, Tom, Jordan, Gatsby and Nick go to the Plaza Hotel after Daisy’s tea party, what confrontation takes place between Gatsby and Tom?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fitzgerald depicts two extramarital affairs in the novel, Tom Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson, and Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Compare and contrast these two affairs.

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate the elements of cause and effect in this story using examples from the novel. Choose three events from the story that cause change in Gatsby’s life. How does Gatsby react to the events and their effects? How does he change emotionally in his own life and in his attitude toward Daisy?

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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