The Great Gatsby Test Answers

The narrator of The Great Gatsby is Jay Gatsby

False

Nick Carraway is cousin to Daisy Buchanan

True

Tom and Daisy are married and have one son together

False

Jay Gatsby lives in East Egg,which represents "new money"

False

Gatsby throws elaborate parties, with hope that Jordon Baker will one day attend

False

Tom has a mistress from The Valley of Ashes, named Myrle Wilson

True

Dr. T.J. Eckleburg is Nick's eye doctor

False

Gatsby wants Nick to invite Daisy over for tea, so that Gatsby can stop by to see her.

True

Daisy and Gatsby have a past togerther

True

Myer Wolfsheim ia a gambler who fixed the 1919 World Series

True

Gatsby's real name is Dan Cody

False

Gatsby never accepted his parents as his own because they were unsuccessful and impoverished

True

Gatsby wants Daisy to ask Tom for a divorce

False

Daisy tells Tom that she never loved him

False

Daisy is the one driving the car that kills Myrtle Wilson

True

Tom tells George that he has killed Myrtle

False

George kills Gatsby

True

No one shows up to Gatsby's funeral , except Nick Carraway

True

Nick Carraway goes back to the Mid-West at the end of the novel

False

Nick considers Tom and Daisy "careless" people, who destroy everything in their path

True

The Great Gatsby was written by

F.Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby takes place during the summer of_________________ in Long Island

1922

The Buchanans live _______ which represents __________

East Egg, old money

From Gatsby's mansion, Gatsby sees a ______________ light at the end of Daisy's dock

Green

The area of land that lies between the Eggs and Manhattan is known as ___________________

The Valley of Ashes

Nick Carraway first meets Gatsby because

Gatsby sent him an invitation to attend one of his parties

The Great Gatsby is considered a quintessential novel of the _____________

Jazz Age

Themes present within The Great Gatsby include

Love Loneliness Education

On the way back from the Plaza, Gatsby and Daisy drive the __________ car while Jordan, Nick, and Tom drivd the ________ car.

Yellow, blue

The "Eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg" are known as ____________________

"The Eyes of God"

" We backed up to a gray old man who bore an absurd resemblance to John D. Rockefeller"

Allusion

"This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque garden; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys"

Imagery

"It was the kind of voice that the car follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again"

Personification

"This fella's a regular Belasco"

Allusion

"At 158th Street the cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment-house"

Metaphor

"There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby's enormous house, so I stared at it like Kant at his church steeple"

Simile Allusion

"You remind me of a - of a rose, an absolute rose"

Metaphor

"He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God"

Metaphor

"At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete"

Simile

What does Gatsby call Nick ?

Old Sport

Why does Nick attend Gatsby's party ?

Because he receives an invitation to attend, from Gatsby himself.

What is Gatsby's first name ?

Jay

"She was incurably dishonest. She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness... It made no difference to me. Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you can never blame deeply" ( Fitzgerald 58). Who is Nick describing ?

Jordan

What does Gatsby ask Nick on the car ride to Manhattan ?

"What's your opinion of me, anyhow?"

Who is Mr. Wolfsheim?

A gambler who fixed the 1919 World Series

How do Gatsby and Daisy know one another ?

They are old "lovers" when they were younger.

What does Gatsby want Nick to do for him?

Gatsby wants Nick to get him and Daisy up with eachother.