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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the slender young woman with the charming face that emanates discontent whom Nick meets at dinner with the Buchanan’s?
(a) Mrs. Baker.
(b) Miss Daisy.
(c) Mrs. Buchanan.
(d) Miss Baker.

2. How does Nick remember years later, the celebrities and other affluent people who visited Gatsby’s mansion in the summer of 1922?
(a) He took photographs of every guest.
(b) He contacts Gatsby’s domestic help from 1922.
(c) He has a photographic memory.
(d) He writes a timetable of names.

3. What comment does the stout, middle-aged man that Nick and Jordan meet in the library say about Gatsby’s books?
(a) All the books are real.
(b) Every book is the same.
(c) The books have no pages.
(d) All the books are written in a foreign language.

4. What is the name of the young soldier Daisy dated in 1917?
(a) Tom Buchanan.
(b) Jay Gatsby.
(c) Nick Carraway.
(d) Cecil Roebuck.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What lie does Catherine tell about Daisy?

2. What arrives from New York to Gatsby’s house every Friday?

3. What does Nick observe from his home as he gazes at Mr. Gatsby’s mansion during summer days?

4. What does Nick realize as Gatsby continues telling him about his past?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Tom’s views on minority races?

2. What does Nick see in Gatsby’s smile the first time they meet?

3. What does Jordan Baker tell Nick about Daisy when they meet for tea at the Plaza Hotel?

4. Why doesn’t Nick call out to Gatsby when he sees him looking out over the ocean?

5. What does Jordan Baker say about the phone call Tom receives during dinner?

6. What do Nick and Gatsby talk about the first time they meet at Gatsby’s party?

7. Where does Nick Carraway move to when he finds a job in his chosen profession?

8. What does the narrator, Nick Carraway, reveal in the first chapter about how he judges other people?

9. What is the request that Gatsby asks Jordan to make to Nick?

10. What does Catherine, Mrs. Wilson’s sister, tell Nick about Gatsby?

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