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The Great Gatsby Review

Total questions: 100

Worksheet time: 50mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is James Gatz?

a)

Gatsby's father

b)

Jay Gatsby

c)

One of Tom Buchanan's business associates

d)

Jordan Baker's cousin

2.

Gatsby is originally from ___.

a)

The Midwest

b)

The South

c)

The Pacific Northwest

d)

New England

3.

Daisy is originally from ___.

a)

Louisville

b)

Illinois

c)

San Francisco

d)

Alabama

4.

Daisy and Tom lived briefly in ___.

a)

San Francisco

b)

Chicago

c)

Atlantic City

d)

Savannah

5.

Nick Carraway is originally from ___.

a)

the Midwest

b)

the Pacific Northwest

c)

Maine

d)

Pennsylvania

6.

Jordan Baker is really good at ___.

a)

Badminton

b)

Tennis

c)

Croquet

d)

Golf

7.

How do we know Jordan is dishonest?

a)

She lies to Daisy about Tom's affair

b)

She cheats during an athletic event

c)

She steals money from Gatsby

d)

She lies about her background and childhood

8.

Tom Buchanan is having an affair with ____.

a)

Catherine

b)

Jordan Baker

c)

Myrtle Wilson

d)

Gloria Swanson

9.

George Wilson believes his wife is having an affair with ___.

a)

Jay Gatsby

b)

Nick Carraway

c)

Tom Buchanan

d)

Meyer Wolfshiem

10.

Who kills Myrtle Wilson?

a)

Gatsby

b)

Tom

c)

Daisy

d)

Nick

11.

Who kills Gatsby?

a)

Tom Buchanan

b)

George Wilson

c)

Nick Carraway

d)

Daisy Buchanan

12.

Which character commits suicide towards the end of the novel?

a)

George Wilson

b)

Nick Carraway

c)

Jay Gatsby

d)

The owl-eyed man

13.

Gatsby tells people that he was educated at ____.

a)

Harvard

b)

Yale

c)

Cambridge

d)

Oxford

14.

Nick and Tom both attended ___.

a)

Harvard

b)

Yale

c)

Princeton

d)

Columbia

15.

Which character plays polo?

a)

Tom Buchanan

b)

Nick Carraway

c)

Jay Gatsby

d)

George Wilson

16.

Which character supposedly fixed the 1919 World Series?

a)

Meyer Wolfshiem

b)

The owl-eyed man

c)

Tom Buchanan

d)

Doctor T.J. Eckelburg

17.

Daisy and Tom live in ___.

a)

East Egg

b)

West Egg

c)

Manhattan

d)

The Valley of the Ashes

18.

Which does NOT live in West Egg?

a)

Jay Gatsby

b)

Nick Carraway

c)

Nick's Finnish maid

d)

Jordan Baker

19.

West Egg symbolizes ___.

a)

New money

b)

Old money

c)

The judgment of God

d)

Destiny

20.

East Egg symbolizes ____.

a)

New money

b)

Old money

c)

The judgment of God

d)

The lower class

21.

The Valley of Ashes symbolizes ____.

a)

New money

b)

Old money

c)

The judgment of God

d)

The lower class

22.

Which character lives in the Valley of Ashes?

a)

George Wilson

b)

Catherine

c)

Meyer Wolfshiem

d)

Gatsby's father

23.

Which couple owns a dog?

a)

Myrtle and Tom

b)

Jordan and Nick

c)

Daisy and Tom

d)

Daisy and Gatsby

24.

What item does Wilson finds that leads him to discover his wife's affair?

a)

A pearl necklace worth $350,000

b)

A rose gold watch

c)

Keys to Gatsby's yellow coupe and mansion

d)

A dog leash

25.

Which couple has an apartment in New York City?

a)

Myrtle and Tom

b)

Jordan and Nick

c)

Daisy and Tom

d)

Daisy and Gatsby

26.

Which character does not make it to Gatsby's funeral?

a)

Nick

b)

Gatsby's father

c)

Daisy

d)

The owl-eyed man

27.

Who tells George Wilson "the identity" of Myrtle's killer?

a)

Tom Buchanan

b)

Daisy Buchanan

c)

Nick Carraway

d)

Jordan Baker

28.

Who is Dan Cody?

a)

Gatsby's father

b)

Gatsby's mentor

c)

One of Gatsby's sketchy business associates

d)

One of Tom's business associates

29.

Who is Doctor T.J. Eckleburg?

a)

An eye doctor who has a decaying billboard in the Valley of Ashes

b)

The coroner who declared that Myrtle died instantly from blunt force trauma

c)

An investor that always calls Gatsby at inopportune times

d)

The pseudonym that Tom uses to rent a suite at the Plaza Hotel

30.

What separates New York City from East and West Egg?

a)

The Valley of Ashes

b)

A bay of water

c)

A scenic highway

d)

A mountain range

31.

What separates East Egg and West Egg?

a)

The Valley of Ashes

b)

A bay of water

c)

A scenic highway

d)

A mountain range

32.

Which character is a mechanic?

a)

George Wilson

b)

Nick Carraway

c)

Klipspringer

d)

Dan Cody

33.

Which character is new to the business of selling bonds?

a)

Nick Carraway

b)

Jay Gatsby

c)

Jordan Baker

d)

Meyer Wolfshiem

34.

Tom and Daisy have a ____.

a)

daughter

b)

son

c)

pet leopard

d)

set of triplets

35.

Who is Pammy?

a)

Tom and Daisy's child

b)

Myrtle's sister

c)

Jordan's sister

d)

Nick's maid

36.

Gatsby initially tells Nick that he is originally from ___.

a)

San Francisco

b)

Arizona

c)

North Dakota

d)

Chicago

37.

What is the literal significance of the green light Gatsby can see from his dock?

a)

It's the light on Daisy's dock

b)

It represents something just out of reach

c)

It represents money

d)

It's a light far off in New York City

38.

What is the figurative significance of the green light that Gatsby can see from his dock?

a)

It represents the unattainability of Daisy and the American Dream

b)

It represents Gatsby's perverse thirst for money

c)

It represents life, and the fact that Gatsby's is almost over

d)

It represents what life is like in the Valley of Ashes

39.

What does the billboard in the Valley of Ashes symbolize?

a)

The judgment of God

b)

New money

c)

Old money

d)

The double standards of sexism

40.

During what year do the novel's events take place?

a)

1922

b)

1928

c)

1919

d)

1942

41.

Who wrote "The Great Gatsby"?

a)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

b)

Ernest Hemingway

c)

John Steinbeck

d)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

42.

Speaker of this quote and who it is being said to : "Daisy, Daisy, Daisy! I'll say it when I want to!"

a)

Myrtle to Tom

b)

Tom to Gatsby

c)

Gatsby to Nick

d)

Catherine to Myrtle

43.

Speaker of this quote and who it is being said to: "Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!"

a)

Gatsby to Nick

b)

Nick to Gatsby

c)

Daisy to Nick

d)

Wolfshiem to Nick

44.

Speaker of this quote and who it is being said to: "I need money pretty bad and I was wondering what you were going to do with your old car."

a)

George to Tom

b)

Nick to Gatsby

c)

George to Gatsby

d)

Myrtle to Tom

45.

Most of the men in this novel has this fact in common.

a)

They served in World War I

b)

They have degrees from Ivy League Universities

c)

They married women who were above their social class

d)

They own multiple real estate properties

46.

Which character is the most racist?

a)

Tom

b)

George

c)

Nick

d)

Gatsby

47.

Speaker of the quote and who it is being said to: "They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."

a)

Nick to Gatsby

b)

Gatsby to Nick

c)

Jordan to Nick

d)

Tom to Myrtle

48.

Speaker of the following quote and who he is talking about: "He had a big future before him, you know."

a)

Gatsby's father about Gatsby

b)

Wolfshiem about his business associate who was murdered

c)

Nick about Gatsby

d)

Tom about George

49.

Finish this quote: "Her voice is full of ___."

a)

regret

b)

love

c)

money

d)

diamonds

50.

Tom believes that Gatsby is ___.

a)

a bootlegger

b)

a German spy

c)

a serial killer

d)

a homosexual

51.

Daisy believes that Gatsby is ____.

a)

a bootlegger

b)

the owner of several drugstores

c)

an heir to a large fortune and estate in Europe

d)

the actual father of her child

52.

What did Tom give Daisy the night before their wedding?

a)

A sapphire ring

b)

A diamond tiara

c)

A string of pearls

d)

Opal earrings

53.

Gatsby first approaches _____ to establish contact with Daisy.

a)

Nick

b)

Jordan

c)

Myrtle

d)

Tom

54.

Select the best adjective that describes Gatsby when he meets with Daisy at Nick's house for tea.

a)

Nervous

b)

Confident

c)

Arrogant

d)

Flirtatious

55.

What makes Daisy cry when she visits Gatsby's mansion for the first time?

a)

Shirts

b)

A very expensive painting

c)

The swimming pool

d)

A picture of Gatsby from the war

56.

Tom always gets phone calls from ____.

a)

sketchy business associates

b)

his mistress

c)

his father

d)

his college roommate

57.

Gatsby always gets phone calls from ___.

a)

sketchy business associates

b)

his mistress

c)

his father

d)

his college roommate

58.

Whose idea is it to drive to NYC while they are having lunch at the Buchanan residence?

a)

Tom

b)

Daisy

c)

Nick

d)

Gatsby

59.

Daisy confidently states that she never loved Tom.

a)

True

b)

False

60.

Which character receives a special invitation to Gatsby's residence for a party?

a)

Nick

b)

Daisy

c)

Jordan

d)

The owl-eyed man

61.

How do Daisy and Jordan know each other?

a)

They are from the same town

b)

They are in the same sports league

c)

Their children attend the same preschool

d)

They went to college together

62.

Which two characters are related?

a)

Daisy and Nick

b)

Tom and Nick

c)

Tom and Jordan

d)

Jordan and Myrtle

63.

Tom breaks _____ nose.

a)

Myrtle's

b)

Gatsby's

c)

George's

d)

Daisy's

64.

The affair that Tom has in the novel is not the first bad thing he has done to his wife.

a)

True

b)

False

65.

When Daisy and Gatsby meet after years apart, how much time has passed?

a)

5 years

b)

10 years

c)

3 years

d)

15 years

66.

Which relationship is still intact at the end of the novel?

a)

Jordan and Nick

b)

Tom and Daisy

c)

Gatsby and Daisy

d)

Tom and Myrtle

67.

Which couple is described as "careless"?

a)

Tom and Daisy

b)

Daisy and Gatsby

c)

Nick and Jordan

d)

George and Myrtle

68.

Gatsby's funeral was not well-attended.

a)

True

b)

False

69.

Gatsby hosts elaborate parties almost every weekend because ___.

a)

he has a drinking problem

b)

he hopes Daisy will come

c)

he genuinely enjoys being the center of attention

d)

he writes off the parties on his tax returns as business expenses

70.

Which of the following is NOT given as a sign that Gatsby isn't "old money"?

a)

His unconventional color choices, like his pink suit and yellow car

b)

His huge mansion in West Egg

c)

He gets confused about silverware, like which fork is his salad fork

d)

He appears to have made his money through unclear and questionable means

71.

At its core, this is a novel about ___.

a)

people who are not from the East Coast trying to thrive on the East Coast

b)

Southerners trying to stick to their antiquated values

c)

the effortless accessibility of the American dream

d)

the oppression of Prohibition

72.

Most of the people who attend Gatsby's parties are invited via formal messenger.

a)

True

b)

False

73.

What is ironic about the location where Gatsby died?

a)

His butler tried to shut it down for the season, but Gatsby said no.

b)

It is where he and Daisy first reconnected

c)

It is where Tom realized that Daisy is having an affair

d)

It is where he hid his car after coming home from New York

74.

What did Tom tell Nick made him cry after the accident?

a)

Daisy's guilt over what had happened

b)

A box of dog biscuits

c)

A dog leash

d)

The sight of Wilson's shop

75.

What is the weather like when Daisy and Gatsby reconnect at Nick's?

a)

Rainy

b)

Extremely hot

c)

Unseasonably cold

d)

Perfectly comfortable

76.

What is the weather like when everyone drives in to NYC to hang out at the Plaza Hotel?

a)

Extremely hot

b)

Rainy

c)

Unseasonably cold

d)

Perfectly comfortable

77.

What is the weather like when Gatsby dies?

a)

Snow has started to fall

b)

The leaves are starting to fall

c)

The spring flowers are beginning to bloom

d)

The summer nights are getting longer

78.

Select the character that symbolizes old money.

a)

Tom Buchanan

b)

Jay Gatsby

c)

Nick Carraway

d)

George Wilson

79.

Select the character that represents new money.

a)

Gatsby

b)

Buchanan

c)

Carraway

d)

Wilson

80.

Select the character that represents the middle class.

a)

Nick

b)

Tom

c)

Jay

d)

George

81.

Select the character that represents the lower class.

a)

Wilson

b)

Buchanan

c)

Gatsby

d)

Carraway

82.

What does George Wilson tell Tom while the group is traveling to the Plaza Hotel?

a)

He is moving West with his wife and needs money

b)

He is going to kill his wife

c)

He thinks Tom should buy a yellow car

d)

He caught his wife having an affair

83.

Why did Myrtle most likely run out in front of the car?

a)

She thought Tom was driving and would stop for her

b)

She was trying to kill herself

c)

She was hoping to hitchhike to NYC

d)

She couldn't see because Wilson had beaten her face

84.

Gatsby died from ____.

a)

a gunshot wound

b)

suffocation

c)

a stab wound

d)

being struck with a crowbar

85.

What does Nick think Gatsby should do towards the end of the novel and why does he refuse?

a)

Get out of town; Gatsby wants to wait until he hears from Daisy

b)

Sell his car; Gatsby says it isn't worth as much as Nick thinks it is

c)

Go to the police; Gatsby doesn't want to incriminate himself

d)

Apologize to George and pay him off; Gatsby says that would be insulting to George

86.

sharing a common border

a)

contiguous

b)

garrulous

c)

juxtaposition

d)

provincial

87.

Friendly or lively

a)

convivial

b)

garrulous

c)

hauteur

d)

provincial

88.

A person characterized by excessive vices.

a)

debauchee

b)

hauteur

c)

pasquinade

d)

punctilious

89.

Misleading outward appearance

a)

facade

b)

innuendo

c)

juxtaposition

d)

somnambulism

90.

Chatty

a)

garrulous

b)

insidious

c)

languid

d)

supercilious

91.

Prideful

a)

hauteur

b)

convivial

c)

contiguous

d)

debauchee

92.

Insinuation

a)

innuendo

b)

juxtaposition

c)

facade

d)

supercilious

93.

treacherous or crafty

a)

insidious

b)

laguid

c)

provincial

d)

punctilious

94.

Contrasting two things

a)

juxtaposition

b)

garrulous

c)

pasquinade

d)

contiguous

95.

slow

a)

languid

b)

convivial

c)

insidious

d)

punctilious

96.

A satire

a)

pasquinade

b)

hauteur

c)

juxtaposition

d)

innuendo

97.

Rural

a)

provincial

b)

languid

c)

punctilious

d)

supercilious

98.

Showing great attention to detail and correct behavior

a)

punctilious

b)

supercilious

c)

convivial

d)

insidious

99.

Sleepwalking

a)

somnambulism

b)

pasquinade

c)

facade

d)

debauchee

100.

Believing you are better than others

a)

supercilious

b)

punctilious

c)

contiguous

d)

garrulous