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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. Where does Daisy suggest she and her guests go during the luncheon?

2. What does Nick say to Gatsby about Daisy, Tom, and all their friends?

3. What did Gatsby learn from living with Cody for five years?

4. How did Dan Cody become wealthy?

5. What does Tom find out about Gatsby’s drugstores in Chicago?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Mrs. Wilson get hit by Gatsby’s car and killed?

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

4. Why does Daisy’s voice entrance Gatsby?

5. Why does Mr. Wilson want to buy Tom’s car?

6. 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?

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

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

9. When Nick returns to his house after meeting with Jordan, why does he think his house is on fire?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dr. Eckleburg’s billboard watches over the “valley of ashes.” How do Dr. Eckleburg’s watchful eyes condemn the morally corrupt lives of the spiritually barren and overindulgent characters in the novel? Compare the “valley of ashes” to the lives of these materialistic characters.

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

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?

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