Gatsby Exam Review

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 was not excellent at anything

• Tom excelled so greatly in many areas at a young age that everything afterwards seems unimportant.
• Tom excelled so greatly in sports at a young age that everything afterwards seems like a letdown
• Tom was excellent at many things throughout his entire life

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The quote, "I'm glad it's a girl...I hope she'll be a fool-that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool"

• is said by Tom and means that he is glad he can cheat because women are fools
• Is said by Nick and means that he thinks Daisy is a fool for not leaving Tom
• Is said by Daisy and means that she hopes her daughter will be a fool
• Is said by Daisy and means that at this time, Daisy didn't see any alternative futures for women other than being beautiful enough to marry a rich husband and fool enough to stay with him

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Based on the following line of text from page 23, what was the author's purpose for including this text.

"This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grows like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens..."

• To show the difference between the beauty what money can provide versus the beauty that comes with immense struggle.

• To show that gardens can be made of ashes and still produce something.

• To show that the valley of ashes is rough, but has so much potential.

• To show that the valley of ashes will soon die away like an old unkempt garden.

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What does the following statement reveal about Daisy?

"Then she added irrelevantly: " 'You ought to see the baby.' " 'She's asleep. She's three years old.' "

• She knows that mothers always consider their babies children.

• She was trying to show-off for Nick.

• She desired to have another baby and this was her subconscious speaking.

• She was out of touch with reality.

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What can the reader infer as to why Nick heard Gatsby's voice when he was planning the funeral?

• Nick has some mental disorders and was hearing things that were not really there.

• Nick was in-tuned with Gatsby and deeply understood him and what he would have really wanted.

• Nick was listening to sounds from the party and could pick out Gatsby's voice.

• Nick and Gatsby were one in the same, so it was easy to hear Gatsby's voice.

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Which of these best describes the author's purpose for including the following statement:

"There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other." (Pg. 162)

• to help the reader understand that life flows in both directions.

• to help the reader understand sometimes in life you barely are able to stay afloat.

• to help the reader understand in with the new, out with the old.

• to help the reader understand to just keep floating on by.

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The author refers to the man who sold Myrtle and Tom the dog as having "...an absurd resemblance to John D. Rockefeller." to -

• demonstrate how the wealthy elite are no different than the common person because their tactics are the same.

• further advance the concept that everyone has a twin in this world.

• conclude that Nick understood why common people are treated the way the are.

• reiterate that Myrtle had good taste even when buying from someone on the street.

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Which statement below is most important to the author's overall argument?

• "I'll get somebody for you, Gatsby. Don't worry. Just trust me and I'll get somebody for you -."

• "Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on..."

• "Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor .J. Eckleburg kept their vigil, but I perceived, after a moment, that other eyes were regarding us with peculiar intensity from less than twenty feet away.

• "Gatsby believed in the green light...It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...And one fine morning -

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When Nick described what it was like to leave school and go home for the holidays, that revealed that Nick viewed him and eventually the other main characters in the book as

• humble individuals who brought all of their values from the West to the East

• die hard Easterners who were unfortunately born in the wrong part of the United States

• gypsies who were unable to settle down anywhere

• really a product of the West and never really able to adapt to life and its ways in the East

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She hesitated. Her eyes fell on Jordan and me with a sort of appeal, as though she realized at last what she was doing — and as though she had never, all along, intended doing anything at all. But it was done now. It was too late. “I never loved him,” she said, with perceptible reluctance. “Not at Kapiolani?” demanded Tom suddenly. “No.” From the ballroom beneath, muffled and suffocating chords were drifting up on hot waves of air. “Not that day I carried you down from the Punch Bowl to keep your shoes dry?” There was a husky tenderness in his tone… . “Daisy?”

Which detail best supports the idea that Tom was hurt by Daisy's actions?

• He made her pack up and leave the day after Myrtle was killed.

• He told her that their daughter is no more than a fool.

• He brought up what he did after they were first married.

• He told her to go back to the house with Gatsby in Gatsby's car.

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