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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 represented beauty and glamour to Gatsby when he was 17-years-old?

2. Who does Gatsby want to talk about as he and Nick sit in the dark smoking cigarettes?

3. How does Gatsby feel about women?

4. What car does Tom want to drive when they all leave the tea party?

5. What item does Wilson find wrapped up in the drawer that upsets him?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Nick arrives at Gatsby’s Saturday night party in Chapter 6, how does he describe the atmosphere?

2. What does Nick think Gatsby is trying to do by trying to recover the past?

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

A literary symbol is something that is more than it appears to be. Analyze the “green light” at the end of Daisy’s dock as a literary symbol. How does the novel give clues that the “green light” should be seen as a symbol? How does the symbolic nature of the “green light” change for Gatsby as the novel progresses?

Essay Topic 3

Interpret the feelings Jay Gatsby and Daisy have for each other before he goes to war. Explain how you know if their feelings are authentic or superficial? Are they truthful with one other? Explain. Compare these emotions with how they interact later in the novel, when they meet at Nick’s invitation to tea. What regrets do they express during Daisy’s tea party and after Mrs. Wilson’s death?

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