The Great Gatsby Chapters 6-7Quiz

What is most closely the meaning of initiative as it is used to describe the reporter who visits Gatsby’s house (page 97, paragraph 4)?

• A new attempt or plan to solve a problem

• An intense curiosity, to the point of intrusiveness

• The ability to judge what needs to be done, and then act

• An introductory step toward a goal

Which literary device does author Fitzgerald mainly use in the passage below (page 97, paragraph 5)? “Gatsby’s notoriety, spread about by the hundreds who had accepted his hospitality and so become authorities upon his past, had increased all summer until he fell just short of being news.”

• Sarcasm—he pokes fun at the people who claim to know all about Gatsby simply because they attended his parties

• Hyperbole—he exaggerates when he refers to “the hundreds who had accepted his hospitality”

• Both A and B

• Neither A nor B

Which of these inferences about Gatsby is best supported by Nick’s understanding of Gatsby’s parents (page 98, paragraphs 2-3)?

• Gatsby suspected he may have been adopted because he was so unlike his parents.

• Gatsby resents his parents because they were too lazy to make their farm successful.

• Gatsby wants to erase his lowly upbringing and remake himself as a successful person.

• Gatsby was treated poorly by his parents and wished he belonged to a different family.

Which of these inferences best explains why the young James Gatz changed his name to Jay Gatsby?

• He thought “James Gatz” sounded childish and “Jay Gatsby” more mature.

• He wanted the new name to match the more affluent person he aspired to become.

• He wished to hide his true identity from Dan Cody in order to get a chance at his inheritance.

The narrator, Nick, interrupts the narrative to provide Gatsby’s true backstory mainly because ____.

• He wants to share the information that the young New York reporter discovered during his investigation

• He wishes to set the record straight about Gatsby’s identity in order to show that the rumors about him are false

• He wants the reader to sympathize with Gatsby by revealing how he worked his way up out of poverty

• He tells the story to fill a break in the action, as he hasn’t seen or heard from Gatsby in several weeks

The scene in which Tom Buchanan and two other residents of East Egg visit Gatsby’s house on horseback adds to the development of the plot mainly by ____.

• Highlighting the contrast between “old money” East Eggers like Tom and Sloane and “new money” West Eggers like Gatsby

• Revealing that Tom Buchanan is increasingly suspicious about and jealous of Gatsby’s past association with his wife Daisy

• Emphasizing that the very rich appear to have little else to do besides ride horses, drink cocktails, and attend fancy parties

• Showing how desperate Gatsby is to impress Tom Buchanan and to be welcomed into his “old money” world

The narrator’s description of Daisy as “appalled by West Egg” (page107, paragraph 3) mainly suggests ____.

• Daisy is upset that West Egg, formerly a quiet Long Island fishing village, has become a decadent playground for the rich

• She’s pretending to be impressed by the crowd of actors and directors, though she secretly believes they are low-class people

• Her feelings that uptight East Eggers should try to behave more like fun-loving West Eggers who, like Gatsby, flaunt their wealth

• Daisy’s “old money” snobbishness—the West Egg crowd have mostly come from nothing and will wind up as nothing

Which example of figurative language in the Louisville flashback (page 110, paragraph 6 - end of page 111) best illustrates Gatsby’s fierce ambition?

• Gatsby interprets the “stir and bustle among the stars” to be an omen of success.

• Gatsby sees the sidewalk blocks as “a ladder” leading to a “secret place above the trees.

• Gatsby listens for “the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star.

• When Gatsby kissed Daisy, she “blossomed for him like a flower.”

Which of the following literary devices is mainly used in the first paragraph of Chapter 7 (page 113)?

• foreshadowing—the lights in Gatsby’s house are all off, precipitating a series of events that lead to his demise

• allusion—Gatsby is compared to Trimalchio, a once-enslaved Roman who became wealthy by dubious means

• personification—the automobiles turn expectantly into Gatsby’s driveway and drive sulkily away

• All of the above

What is most closely the meaning of harrowing as it is used in the text (page 114, paragraph 10)?

• traumatic

• exhausting

• mischievous

• dangerous