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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What view does the narrator have from his new home?
(a) An elementary school and a bus stop.
(b) City lights and traffic.
(c) The water, his neighbor’s lawn and the mansions of millionaires.
(d) A wharf with fishing boats coming and going.

2. What is Tom Buchanan’s view of racial equality?
(a) All races are equal.
(b) The inferior races are Nordic.
(c) If the dominant white race does not remain alert, the inferior races will take over.
(d) Civilizations would thrive if all the races worked together as brothers.

3. What arrives from New York to Gatsby’s house every Friday?
(a) Five crates of bananas and oranges.
(b) Five crates of oranges and lemons.
(c) Five crates of bananas and limes.
(d) Five crates of apples and pears.

4. What object does Nick remind Daisy of?
(a) Granite slab.
(b) Petrified wood.
(c) A rose.
(d) Driftwood.

5. How does Nick feel as he walks among the affluent guests at Gatsby’s mansion?
(a) Ill at ease.
(b) Jealous.
(c) Annoyed at the visiting Englishmen.
(d) Right at home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice did the narrator’s father give him when he was a child that he still remembers as an adult?

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

3. What does Lucille reveal about the man she almost married?

4. When the narrator returns from the East, what does he hope not to see again?

5. What brings Nick to Mr. Gatsby’s mansion for the first time?

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