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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What type of house do the narrator’s old friends live in?
(a) Georgian Colonial mansion.
(b) Shotgun style.
(c) Victorian mansion.
(d) Contemporary.

3. What does Gatsby tell Nick about his time in the war?
(a) He did not see any action.
(b) He was never promoted.
(c) He tried hard to die.
(d) He was afraid most of the time.

4. What do the young ladies at Gatsby’s lawn party speculate about his line of work?
(a) He invests in bonds.
(b) He is a gigolo.
(c) He is a banker.
(d) He is a bootlegger.

5. What advice did the narrator’s father give him when he was a child that he still remembers as an adult?
(a) Criticize people that do not live up to your expectations.
(b) Only criticize people who are below your station in life.
(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 does Nick observe from his home as he gazes at Mr. Gatsby’s mansion during summer days?

2. Who has lunch with Gatsby and Nick in the Forty-Second Street cellar?

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

4. How does Nick feel as he walks among the affluent guests at Gatsby’s mansion?

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

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