Great Gatsby Quiz

During lunch at the Buchanan's, (with Daisy, Tom, Jordan, Nick, and Gatsby), Daisy remarks, "You always look so cool." What is the

significance of this remark?

1. Gatsby for the first time realizes the importance of Daisy's little girl.

2. Daisy is commenting on Jordan's appearance, who sits "like a silver idol" on the couch.

3. Daisy is remarking on Nick's ability to stay both "within and without" the plot.

4. After Daisy says this to Gatsby, Tom realizes that Daisy is involved with Gatsby.
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D

...that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it." Which of the following is a true statement about this passage?

A. Nick's realization comes from

Gatsby's comment that Daisy's voice is full of money.

B. It elevates Daisy, as part of Gatsby's dream, above the "vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty" by which Fitzgerald characterizes the

'20s.

C. It contains a paradox.

D. Both A and C

A

Nick narrates, as he and Tom get gasoline, " stared at him and at

Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before- and it occurred to me

that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well." Which of the following statements expresses Nick's point in this passage?

A. Both Wilson and Tom have shared with each other the news that their wives have been untaithtul.

B. Nick feels that Wilson and Tom have similar levels of intelligence.

C. Nick sees no differences among men of different races.

D. Nick recognizes, in their contrasting reactions to the news of their wives'

infidelities, Wilson's sickness and Tom's health.

D

Myrtle Wilson, locked in her room above the gas

station,

A. calls for Tom to save her

B. realizes that Tom is driving Gatsby's car

C. thinks that Jordan Baker is actually Tom's wife

D. signals to Tom that she will try to meet him in New York.

C

In Nick's comment that "Angry as I was, as we all were, I was tempted

to laugh whenever he opened his mouth. The transition from libertine

to prig was so complete," what point is he making?

A. Nick refers to Gatsby's relief after being able to explain his attendance at Oxford.

B. Nick refers to the formal and correct manner that Gatsby assumes as he confronts

Tom.

C. Nick refers to Tom's willingness to let Daisy and Gatsby work out their harmless flirtation.

D. Nick refers to Tom's transformation from a man who flaunts his mistress to a man who is horrified that his family might be breaking up.

D

"But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room." Which statement is true of this passage?

A. Action verbs create a sense of the vitality of Gatsby's dream.

B. Cumulative sentence structure gives a sense of the final efforts of the dream to

stay alive.

C. Connotative language and imagery create a defeated tone.

D. Both B and C

D

Which of the following is

NOT a true fact about

Myrtle's death?

A. Gatsby's car hit her.

B. Tom and Nick witness the accident.

C. Daisy was driving the car.

D. A witness tells the police that a yellow car hit Myrtle.

B

Which of the following is NOT a part of the conclusion of chapter 7?

A. Nick observes, through their window, that Tom and Daisy seem to be planning something.

B. Nick goes home with Jordan.

C. Daisy has told Gatsby that she will lock herself in her room to protect herself from Tom.

D. Gatsby remains standing in Daisy's yard, watching to make sure she is safe.

B

"....Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor." Which of the following thematic statements is true of this passage?

A. The image of Daisy gleaming like silver connects thematically to Nick's earlier comment that Gatsby had found himself committed to the following of the grail.

B. The idea that "wealth imprisons" connects thematically to Daisy's first comment in the book: "I'm paralyzed with happiness."

C. "The hot struggles of the poor" connects thematically to the "rock of the world," or the reality which Gatsby attempts to deny in her reveries as a teen-ager.

D. All of the above

D

"She wanted her life shaped now, immediately-and the decision must

be made by some force-of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality-that was close at hand." Which of the following language devices creates meaning in this passage?

A. tricolon

B. antithesis

C. allusion

D. simile

A

"His gorgeous pink rag of a suit made a bright spot of color against the white steps and I thought of the night when I first came to his ancestral home three months before. The lawn and drive had been crowded with the faces of those who guessed at his corruption-and he had stood on those steps, concealing his incorruptible dream, as we waved

them goodby." Which of the following explains

Nick's paradoxical sense about Gatsby?

A. His gorgeous pink suit contrasts with the crudeness of his ambition.

B. Although he ultimately became corrupt, his adherence to his dream remains incorruptible.

C. Although Gatsby's guests, who barely knew him, recognized his

corruption, Nick remained blind to it.

D. Although Nick last sees Gatsby standing alone on his steps, in his

B

(Michaelis and Wilson talk after Myrtle's death)

"Standing behind

him Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Dr.

T.J. Eckleburg which had just emerged pale and enormous from the dissolving night." 'God sees everything,' repeated Wilson. 'That's an advertisement,' Michaelis assured him." Which of the following statements best explain how this passage contributes to theme?

A. Fitzgerald creates deliberate ambiguity as to the God or god of

this culture by showing that Wilson believes in God but Michaelis doesn't.

B. Fitzgerald creates deliberate ambiguity as to the God or god of

this culture by showing that Wilson confuses an advertisement with the eyes of God.

C. The facts that Wilson has no priest or church to call, and that he confuses the eyes of God

D. both B and C

Nick infers, in this passage about Wilson, that

"On the other hand, no

garage man who had seen him ever came forward-and perhaps he

had an easier, surer way of finding out what he wanted to know. By

half-past two he was in West Egg where he asked someone the way to Gatsby's house.

So by that time he knew Gatsby's name" that

A. Wilson went to Tom, because Tom had driven the car through Wilson's gas station, and Tom told him it was Gatsby's car.

B. Nick told Wilson who was driving the car.

C. Wilson assumed that Gatsby had been seeing Myrtle.

D. Both A and C

D

(as Gatsby, in his pool, waits for a phone call) "If that was true he

must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid too igh a price for being too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass." Which of the followings statements is true about this passage?

A. Connotative language makes the natural world, as seen through Gatsby's eyes, seem terrifying.

B. Connotative language suggests that Gatsby has, finally, lost that sense of the "unreality of reality" and that this vision is distasteful to him.

C. Connotative language sets the mood for the deaths that follow.

D. all of the above

"That ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees" is

A Meyer Wolfsheim

B Wilson

C someone the narration never clarifies

D Tom.

B

The "holocaust" ended the lives of

A Gatsby and Wilson

B Gatsby and an unidentified man

C Gatsby and Wolfsheim

D. Gatsby and Owl Eyes

A

Klipspringer calls in order to

A ascertain the reason for Gatsby's death

B find out when the funeral is

C try to find a pair of tennis shoes

D offer information about Gatsby's murder.

C

In what way does Fitzgerald connect Gatsby to the ideals of America's early leaders?

A by showing that he became fabulously wealthy by honest, hard work

B by having his father show Nick an old selt-improvement schedule of his son's, connecting Gatsby's pursuit of excellence to Ben Franklin's pursuit of moral perfection.

C by suggesting that Gatsby early on declared his independence from the corruption around him

D by creating Gatsby's name to be suggestive of the name of one of our forefathers.

B

The only friend or acquaintance of

Gatsby's who comes to the funeral, besides Nick, is

A Owl-Eyes

B Klipspriger

C Meyer Wolfsheim

D Jordan

A

In Nick's memory of West Egg, he narrates that

"I see it as a night

scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and

grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lusterless moon. In the foreground four solemn men in dress suits are walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening

dress. Her hand, which dangles over the side, sparkles cold with jewels. Gravely the men turn in at a house-the wrong house. But no one knows the woman's name and no one cares." Which of the following is NOT true of this passage?

A Connotative language describing West Egg creates a morbid, ghastly tone.

B Connotative language and imagery suggests the woman on the stretcher is dead.

C "Gravely" has deliberate ambiguity in this

D. The dream reflects Nick's nostalgia for

West Egg.

D

After Nick meets Tom briefly on a city street, he sees Tom go into a

jewelry store. What does Nick imagine that Tom is buying?

A a ruby ring and a pearl necklace

B a silver dog collar and cuff links

C a pearl necklace and/or a pair of cufflinks

D a silver spoon and a golden hat

C

"As the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes-a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic

contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the LAST TIME IN HISTORY WITH SOMETHING TO

COMMENSURATE TO HIS CAPACITY FOR WONDER."

In this passage, "the fresh green breast of the new world"

A. connects Gatsby's green light symbol to the

D all of the above

23. In the above passage, "pandered" means

A promised

B procured (as a pimp)

C sold

D spoken

B

Which of the following sums up

Fitzgerald's point in the underlined portion of the passage?

A Man's ability to dream has always been greater than the ability of the new land to fulfill this dream.

B Man has never had enough imagination to match the vitality of the New World.

C Only when the first settlers came to America did Americans see an

opportunity (the unsettled land) that was equal to their own capacity to dream.

D. None of the above

C

In Fitzgerald's last line "so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past," he suggests thematically that

A as a culture, we have given up on the dream

B as a culture, we can never completely give up the dream because it's part of our heritage.

C as a culture, we have forever lost the ability to attain the dream

D Both B and C

D