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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gatsby always see at the end of Daisy’s dock?

2. What is Gatsby’s financial state when he returns from France?

3. How does Gatsby meet Dan Cody?

4. How is Jordan’s voice when she calls Nick at his office?

5. What does Tom find out about Gatsby’s drugstores in Chicago?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nick say to Gatsby as he is leaving him for the last time?

2. What happened to Gatsby’s mind the first time he kissed Daisy?

3. Why does Jay Gatsby decide to tell Nick about how Gatsby and Daisy fell in love?

4. Why does Mr. Wilson want to buy Tom’s car?

5. When Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy does not understand him the way she used to, what is Nick’s reply?

6. What is Gatsby’s reply when Daisy asks him how he lives in such a large house all alone?

7. What are the three stages of emotion Gatsby experiences on the night he meets Daisy again for the first time?

8. In Chapter 7, why does Nick go over to Gatsby’s mansion to see if Gatsby is sick?

9. Why is Tom feeling panicked as he and Nick drive away from Wilson’s garage in Chapter 7?

10. When Daisy, Tom, Jordan, Gatsby and Nick go to the Plaza Hotel after Daisy’s tea party, what confrontation takes place between Gatsby and Tom?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Summarize how F. Scott Fitzgerald uses local color and imagery to describe Gatsby’s mansion. Cite descriptive examples of rooms, décor, landscaping, and his view of the harbor. Does the imagery Fitzgerald uses depict a clear and accurate picture of the mansion and the surrounding landscape?

Essay Topic 2

Interpret the feelings Jay Gatsby and Daisy have for each other before he goes to war. Explain how you know if their feelings are authentic or superficial? Are they truthful with one other? Explain. Compare these emotions with how they interact later in the novel, when they meet at Nick’s invitation to tea. What regrets do they express during Daisy’s tea party and after Mrs. Wilson’s death?

Essay Topic 3

Dr. Eckleburg’s billboard watches over the “valley of ashes.” How do Dr. Eckleburg’s watchful eyes condemn the morally corrupt lives of the spiritually barren and overindulgent characters in the novel? Compare the “valley of ashes” to the lives of these materialistic characters.

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