WorksheetsGreat Gatsby Test
Total questions: 57
Worksheet time: 34mins
Described as "one of the few honest people that I have ever known"
Nick
Jordan
Tom
Daisy
Who is Gatsby dating?
Jordan
Daisy
Myrtle
Catherine
Whose car kills Myrtle?
Tom's
Gatsby's
Nick's
George's
Besides being a hit with the ladies, Gatsby's car is
blue
yellow
red
green
It’s strongly implied that Gatsby earns his money through unscrupulous means. What are they?
Bootlegging during the Prohibition Era
Ponzi schemes
Befriending a rich and lonely widow whose death was ruled an accident, but questions still linger
Putting up a sketchy-sounding Kickstarter
Who is described in the following quotation? "[Her voice] was full of money – that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it… high in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl."
Jordan
Daisy
Myrtle
Catherine
Who is Tom having an affair with?
Jordan
Daisy
Myrtle
Catherine
The eyes of T.J. Eckelberg represent
the eyes of God
The American Dream
Enchanted objects
Social class structure
What’s the difference between West Egg and East Egg?
West Egg is "old money"; East Egg is "new money"
West Egg is a major cultural hub; East Egg is suburbia
West Egg is "new money"; East Egg is "old money"
West Egg is a floating citadel in the sky; East Egg has been overrun by lizard people
Described as "one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.”
Nick
Gatsby
Tom
George
Where does Gatsby's reunion with Daisy take place?
By the pool
At Nick's house
At the golf tournament
At the second Gatsby party that Nick attends
In the novel, cars represent the theme that
the American Dream is a myth
Wealth breeds carelessness
Cars are bad places to have affairs
Personality can be determined by the color of your car
What is the "valley of ashes"?
The stretch of garbage land between West Egg and New York City
A disparaging nickname for New York City
A disparaging nickname for America
Nick's will to live
Described as "incurably dishonest. She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard, jaunty body."
Jordan
Myrtle
Daisy
Catherine
Who kills Myrtle?
Gatsby
Tom
Nick
Daisy
At the party, whom does Gatsby call aside for a private conversation?
Jordan
Nick
Daisy
Myrtle
Who did Myrtle think Jordan was?
Tom's cousin
Tom's maid
Tom's wife
Tom's second mistress
What information does Tom get from George ON THE WAY to New York?
Myrtle wants to break up with Tom
George is ready to make an offer on the yellow car
He and Myrtle are moving away
Myrtle has taken ill with a terrible disease
Described as "Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smoky air."
Jordan
Daisy
Myrtle
Catherine
Who Killed Gatsby?
Tom
Daisy
Nick
George
To whom does George initially believe the yellow car belongs?
Tom
Gatsby
Jordan
Nick
Described as having "one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor."
Nick
Gatsby
Tom
George
Who does Nick run into at the first of Gatsby's parties he attends?
Tom
Daisy
Jordan
All of the above
Gatsby is known for his elaborate parties. What is the most correct answer as to why he throws them?
To have fun with people his age
He throws them hoping Daisy will wander in one night
To keep the mobsters from making a scene
To show his wealth
Described as "one of these worn-out men: when he wasn't working he sat on a chair in the doorway and stared at the people and the cars that passed along the road. When any one spoke to him he invariably laughed in an agreeable, colorless way. He was his wife's man and not his own."
Nick
Gatsby
Tom
George
Who is Dan Cody?
Gatsby’s older brother.
A rich man Gatsby wanted to be like.
Jay Gatsby before he changed his name.
The man who fixed the 1919 World Series.
Gatsby's response to Nick when he tells him that he cannot repeat the past is
"I know, old sport."
"Why of course you can!"
"That's my affair."
"I will make it happen or my name isn't Jay Gatsby!"
What was prohibition?
the prohibiting of immigration into and emigration from the USA during WWI
a Constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920-1933
a restriction on personal gun ownership that lasted for most of the 1920s
the legally-imposed suppression of anti-war opinions both in speeches and in published writings
Who does Nick date?
Jordan
Daisy
Myrtle
Catherine
Who was in Tom's blue coupe on the way TO New York?
Daisy and Gatsby
Tom, Nick, and Jordan
Nick and Gatsby
Daisy, Jordan, and Tom
When Tom tells George Wilson he is interested in selling him a car -- knowing what we do about Tom -- what inference can we make about this offer?
The old money represented by Tom uses the "no money" people while pretending to help them.
Tom is actually trying to help Wilson as he empathizes with people who are less fortunate than he.
Tom wants to get rid of this particular car and thinks it will help Wilson.
Tom is trying to impress Nick with his generosity.
How does Gatsby attempt to win Daisy's heart?
He dies in battle for her
He proposes to her with an elaborately choreographed dance routine
He brings her the carved-out heart of her former lover
He becomes a rich man, then throws lavish parties and just kind of hopes she attends
Who is Daisy married to?
Nick
Gatsby
Tom
George
What is Jay Gatsby's real name?
James Gatz
Dan Cody
Jimmy John
Um...Is this a trick question? Jay Gatsby, duh.
Tom's degrading treatment of Myrtle reveals the cruel side of his privileged upbringing. His "loyalty" to Daisy also reveals his hypocrisy: he's cheating on Daisy but appreciates that she is in his social stratosphere. What theme is represented here?
The Jazz Age
Class (old money, new money, no money)
the American Dream
Past and Future
Who gets blamed for killing Myrtle?
Daisy
Gatsby
Jordan
Tom
Which of the following characters would be considered "new money"?
Nick Carraway
Daisy Buchanan
Tom "No Chill" Buchanan
Jay "Even Less Chill" Gatsby
Who is George married to?
Jordan
Daisy
Myrtle
Catherine
Who killed George?
Nick
Tom
George
Myrtle
The Green Light represents
The American Dream
The eyes of God
Social class
True love
Tom has a lot of really terrible qualities. Which of these ISN’T one of them?
He's an adulterer
He's a gambler
He's sexist
He's racist
When Fitzgerald proposed to Zelda, she accepted but later broke it off. Why?
her father wouldn't let her marry him
because his job couldn't support her lifestyle
because he cheated on her
because he put her in a psychiatric hospital
EC. In which manner did one of Zelda Fitzgerald's suitors die?
Fell off a flagpole where he'd been flagpole sitting.
Was attacked by a shark he accidentally caught while fishing.
Crashed while doing aerial stunts in a plane to impress her.
Set himself on fire while using gasoline to write a love message on his lawn.
EC. How many times does Gatsby use the "old sport" term of endearment? (Just Gatsby. We're not counting the times Tom uses it mockingly.)
10
25
37
43
EC: What was the cause of Zelda's death?
She finally succumbed to her illness and died of schizophrenia in a mental institution.
She died of a broken heart, never being able to reach the level of happiness with Fitzgerald that she once had.
She died in a hospital fire, along with several other women.
She was never able to leave the sanitarium and ended up dying of old age.
