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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Gatsby doing the first time Nick sees him?
(a) Drinking brandy on his front lawn.
(b) Looking up at the stars and trembling.
(c) Driving his sports car.
(d) Strolling arm-in-arm with a young lady.

2. How do Tom and Mrs. Wilson remain discreet on the train to New York?
(a) Mrs. Wilson sits behind Tom.
(b) They sit across the aisle from one another.
(c) They sit in different cars.
(d) Mrs. Wilson sits with Nick.

3. How does Nick describe Mrs. Wilson?
(a) Thin and attractive.
(b) Shapely but plain.
(c) Stout and sensuous.
(d) Overweight and homely.

4. What quality does the narrator give to Gatsby as he describes the man?
(a) Something gorgeous about him.
(b) Something ethereal about him.
(c) Something evil about him.
(d) Something sinister about him.

5. What advice did the narrator’s father give him when he was a child that he still remembers as an adult?
(a) Only criticize people who are below your station in life.
(b) Criticize people that do not live up to your expectations.
(c) Always criticize people who make ignorant comments.
(d) Think before criticizing people because many have not had the advantages you have.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tom Buchanan’s view of racial equality?

2. What is Mrs. Wilson’s reaction when Mrs. McKee compliments her dress?

3. Who is the slender young woman with the charming face that emanates discontent whom Nick meets at dinner with the Buchanan’s?

4. What is Tom’s response when Nick asks if Mr. Wilson objects to Tom seeing Mrs. Wilson?

5. What does Nick call the desolate area where the road meets the railroad and is located between West Egg and New York?

(see the answer key)

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