End of Novel-The Great Gatsby

Who tells Nick about Tom’s affair?

• Tom

• Daisy

• Gatsby

• Jordan

“I’m inclined to reserve all judgements…reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.” What does the passage reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope mean in this passage?

• Nick’s father taught him not judge and therefore Nick has an extremely hopeful outlook

• Gatsby shouldn’t be judged

• Gatsby is full of never-ending hope

• Nick reserves judgements because he doesn’t care about the future

In chapter one, as Nick leaves, Daisy asks him about a story she heard about him. What is that story?

• Nick is having an affair

• Nick in engaged

• Nick is in debt

• Nick is attracted to Jordan

Which quotation from the text best shows why Nick is “inclined to reserve all judgements”

• “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had”

• “[Gatsby had] an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found..”

• “And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit”

• “I was unjustly accused of being a politician”

What do Tom and Nick have in common?

• They both went to the same college.

• They both live in West Egg

• They both dated Daisy

• They both served in the war

In chapter one, how does Nick feel when he leaves the Buchanan’s?

• Exited

• Upset

• Angry

• Disgusted

What career does the narrator pursue after he returns from the Great War?

• Gas station business

• Automotive business

• Financial consultant

• Bond business

When Daisy’s daughter was born, what did she say she

hoped she would be?

• An empowered, independent woman

• A strong leader

• A beautiful fool

• An innocent little lamb

Tom Buchanan was “one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterwards savors of anticlimax.” What does this passage mean?

• Tom excelled so greatly in sports at a young age that everything afterwards seems like a letdown

• Tom was not excellent at anything

• Tom excelled so highly in many areas at a young age that everything afterwards seems unimportant

• Tom was excellent at many things throughout his entire life

“White palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water… [The Buchanan’s house] was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white…mansion…French windows glowing with reflected gold.” Which words from this passage represent the extravagance of the 1920s? Select all that apply.

• White palaces

• Glittered and glowed

• Cheerful

• Reflected gold

• Elaborate