The Great Gatsby Ch 4-6 quiz

On their way into the city for lunch, Gatsby tells Nick some incredible stories about his past that initially, Nick doesn’t believe are true. Eventually, Gatsby shares with Nick two items that convince Nick that Gatsby has been telling the truth about his past.

What are these items?

• An award he won during the war and a picture of him and some friends at Oxford

• A ruby and a picture of him and his army buddies

• A small painting and picture of him and his family in San Francisco

• An old military gun and a picture of him hunting big game in Africa.

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Meyer Wolfsheim is a shady character. All the following textual evidence from the book supports this conclusion EXCEPT:

• “Meyer Wolfsheim? No, he’s a gambler.” Gatsby hesitated, then added coolly: “He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919.”

• “ ‘I see you’re looking at my cuff buttons … Finest specimens of human molars’”

• “He has to telephone,’ said Mr. Wolfshiem, following him with his eyes. ‘Fine fellow, isn’t he? Handsome to look at and a perfect gentleman.”

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Nick learns from Jordan Baker about a shocking event that happened only a few months after Daisy married Tom. What happened?

• They had their daughter.

• Tom got into a car accident and with him in the car was a woman he was having an affair with.

• They went on their honeymoon in the south seas and Tom hit Daisy.

• They spent a year living in France and Jordan visited them while they were there.

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Gatsby has been wanting to get back together with Daisy since he left her to go to war in 1917. What textual evidence BEST supports this idea?

• “I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night,” went on Jordan, “but she never did. Then he began asking people casually if they knew her, and I was the first one he found.”

• A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: “There are the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and tired. And Daisy ought to have something in her life,” murmured Jordan to me.

• “He wants to know--” continued Jordan “--if you’ll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over.”

• “I’m going to make a big request of you to-day ...so I thought you ought to know something about me.”

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Read the following quote that describes Gatsby and Daisy meeting again after five years. What is the tone of the following quote that describes the interaction?

“The automatic quality of Gatsby’s answer set us all back at least another minute. I had them both on their feet with the desperate suggestion that they help me make tea…”

• Relaxed & Calm

• Excited & Happy

• Curious & Shy

• Nervous & Tense

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Read the following passage:

“They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such-beautiful shirts before.”

Based on this passage, what have Gatsby’s shirts come to signify to Daisy?

• He is the “advertisement of the man.”

• He buys his shirts from the same place as Tom.

• Gatsby’s wealth and position are now equal with Daisy’s.

• Daisy is really attracted to Gatsby in his shirts.

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In the following quote Nick describes Daisy and Gatsby’s relationship:

“Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams – not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything.”

This quote conveys all of the following EXCEPT:

• Gatsby’s pursuit of Daisy has been a lengthy ordeal for him.

• Nick believes that Daisy is not that impressed by Gatsby’s wealth.

• Nick understands that Gatsby’s perception of Daisy may not match reality.

• Gatsby’s goal of being with Daisy has affected all aspects of his life.

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“I suppose he’d had the name ready for a long time, even then. His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people—his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself...So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception, he was faithful to the end.”

This text provides evidence that:

• Gatsby came from a poor family in North Dakota and not a rich one in San Francisco as he originally tells Nick.

• Jay Gatsby is a made up person created by a 17-year-old poor farm boy named James Gatz.

• Neither A or B

• Both A & B

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The following is a passage from a scene at Gatsby’s party that Daisy attends with Tom. Read the passage and answer the question that follows:

“Tom appeared from his oblivion as we were sitting down to supper together. ‘Do you mind if I eat with some people over here?’ he said. ‘A fellow’s getting off some funny stuff.’ ‘Go ahead,’ answered Daisy genially, ‘And if you want to take down any addresses here’s my little gold pencil….’”

Daisy offering to lend Tom her little gold pencil to take down addresses implies:

• Daisy knows Tom cheats on her and it was her way of subtly telling him she knows what he’s up to.

• Daisy knows Tom likes to meet new people at parties and wants to help him keep in touch with them.

• Daisy knows that Tom forgot his little address book so she’s lending him hers.

• Daisy knows that Tom is jealous of her and Gatsby.

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The following is a passage from a scene after Gatsby’s party that Daisy attends with Tom where Gatsby and Nick discuss Daisy. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow:

“She didn’t like it,” he said immediately.

“Of course she did.”

“She didn’t like it, “ he insisted. “She didn’t have a good time.”

He was silent, and I guessed at his unutterable depression.

“I feel far away from her,” he said. “It’s hard to make her understand. . . . And she doesn’t understand,” he said. “She used to be able to understand. We’d sit for hours---“

Part A: In the passage Gatsby’s insecurity about Daisy is MOST clear in which of these lines:

• He was silent

• “She didn’t like it, “ he insisted. “She didn’t have a good time.”

• “We’d sit for hours---“

• “Of course she did.”

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