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WorksheetsGreat Gatsby Test Review
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 50mins
“I’m inclined to reserve all judgements…reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.” What does the passage reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope mean in this passage?
Gatsby shouldn’t be judged
Gatsby is full of never-ending hope
Nick reserves judgements because he doesn’t care about the future
Nick’s father taught him not judge and therefore Nick has an extremely hopeful outlook
Nick...
Is the main character of the story who lives in the Valley of Ashes
Is the narrator of the story who lives in East Egg
Is the main character of the story who lives close to Gatsby
Is the narrator of the story who lives in West Egg
Which quotation from the text best shows why Nick is “inclined to reserve all judgements”
“I was unjustly accused of being a politician”
“And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit”
“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had”
“[Gatsby had] an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found..”
What career does the narrator pursue after he returns from the Great War?
Financial consultant
Bond business
Car dealer
Gas station owner
Jordan Baker tells Nick to be quiet so that she can hear the argument between Tom and Daisy at dinner. She tells Nick that they are arguing because "Tom's got some woman in New York." The tone of this section of the chapter could BEST be described as...
tense
tragic
playful
somber
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 excelled so greatly in sports at a young age that everything afterwards seems like a letdown
Tom excelled so highly in many areas at a young age that everything afterwards seems unimportant
Tom was not excellent at anything
Tom was excellent at many things throughout his entire life
“White palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water… [The Buchanan’s house] was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white…mansion…French windows glowing with reflected gold.” Which words from this passage represent the extravagance of the 1920s? Select all that apply.
Reflected gold
Cheerful
White palaces
Elaborate
Glittered and glowed
“This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into the ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally….move dimly…through the powdery air” This passage describes:
A farm where wheat is grown
A valley where the sun doesn’t shine so wheat can’t grow
A dumping ground for ashes that were piled so high they covered houses and chimneys
A dumping ground for the ashes of coal that were used to power factories
“The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic—their retinas are a yard high. They look out of…a pair of enormous yellow spectacles…evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice…”
This word means:
An ear doctor
An eye doctor
A witchdoctor
A medical doctor
Which context clues tell you the answer to the definition of an oculist? Select ALL that apply.
Doctor T.J. Ecklegurg
yellow spectacles
blue and gigantic
wild wag
fatten his practice
Where does Nick first meet Tom’s girlfriend?
An apartment in New York City
George Wilson's garage
Daisy's dinner party
His house
Myrtle’s tone toward her husband can best be described as
Annoyed but caring
Loving but mad
Annoyed and disgusted
Loving and caring
To prove that Myrtle didn’t view herself as a member of a lower class, which evidence would you use?
“Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!”
“I want to get one of those dogs,” she said earnestly
“I think it’s cute,” said Mrs. Wilson enthusiastically
I told that boy about the ice.” “These people! You have to keep after them all the time.”
What lie does Myrtle’s sister reveal about Daisy? (Hint: It relates to Tom divorcing Daisy in order to marry Myrtle)?
She is a Catholic
She is getting divorced
She knows about the affair
She is pregnant
What is the significance of Myrtle’s sister’s lie?
It means that Tom and Daisy will stay together because they have a baby on the way
It means that Tom has been lying to Myrtle
It means that Tom and Daisy can never get divorced because it goes against their beliefs
It means that Daisy is down with having an open marriage
The detailed description of the parties that happen at Gatsby’s house best serves the purpose of:
Revealing the extravagance and wealth that the 1920s is famous for
Revealing that Gatsby was breaking the prohibition law
Revealing the music that the 1920s is famous for
Revealing that Gatsby loved to show off his money
Rumors about who Gatsby include that he was…... Select ALL that apply
a librarian
German spy
A member of the mob
A murderer
Montenegro citizen
One can infer the author put in the fake book passage to represent….
That the owl-eyed man assumed the books were fake because he believed Gatsby was also fake
That Gatsby was hiding illegal alcohol behind the fake books
That the owl-eyed man assumed the books were fake because everything else at the party was fake including the lemons and oranges
That Gatsby only appeared rich, but couldn’t afford real books
“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy” This statement is a:
Paradox
Simile
Hyperbole
Metaphor
During the party, Nick observes that Gatsby does not drink alcohol like everyone else. What inferences can a reader make about Gatsby based upon this observation and other events in the chapter?
Gatsby probably believes that alcohol should be illegal.
Gatsby probably wants to remain sober so that he does not lose control, like many of his intoxicated party guests do.
Gatsby's religion probably does not allow him to drink alcohol.
Gatsby is probably allergic to alcohol.
Which vocabulary word BEST describes the way that Nick feels when Gatsby is telling him his life story in Chapter 4?
vacuous
condescending
desolate
incredulous
The “truths” that we find out about Gatsby from Gatsby’s story about his life include…. Select ALL that apply.
He is a bootlegger
He studied at Oxford
He was a war hero
He is the son of wealthy, deceased parents
Which statement best describes Nick’s reaction during the ride in Gatsby’s car?
Nick thought Gatsby was lying until Gatsby provided proof with an authentic medal and photograph
Nick thought Gatsby was lying the entire time and “was sorry I’d ever set foot upon his…lawn.”
Nick thought Gatsby was lying until Gatsby was able to get Wolfsheim to vouch for him.
Nick thought Gatsby was lying the entire time and became annoyed when he asked for a favor
What is the main significance of Jordan’s story that beings with “One October day in nineteen-seventeen—“?
It explains how Daisy and Gatsby are connected
It explains why Jordan can’t be with Nick
It explains how Daisy and Tom fell in love
It explains why Daisy married Tom
We know that Tom started having affairs early on because of inferring from the passage…
“The girl who was with him [in the wreck] got into the papers too because her arm was broken—she was one of the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara Hotel”
“A week after I left Santa Barbara Tom ran into a wagon on the Venture read one night…”
“She used to sit on the sand with his head in her lap by the hour…looking at him with unfathomable delight”
“I thought I’d never seen a girl so mad about her husband”
As a way to trying to return a favor, Gatsby asks Nick if…
He would like his grass cut
He would like to start working with him
He would like to have another meeting with Mr. Wolfsheim
He would like to have Daisy to tea
We can best infer that Gatsby has a sketchy career because of the passage…
“You’re selling bonds, aren’t you, old sport?”
“Well, this would interest you. It wouldn’t take up much of your time and you might pick up a nice bit of money. It happens to be a rather confidential sort of thing.”
“I carry on a little business on the side…you understand.”
“Look here, old sport, you don’t make much money, do you?”
Which examples prove that Gatsby wanted the tea date at Nick’s to be perfect? Select ALL that apply.
Gatsby has Nick’s lawn cut
Gatsby leaves then makes a “grand entrance”
Gatsby has flowers delivered
Initially, the meeting between Daisy and Gatsby can be described as…
Sad
Hostile
Loving
Awkward
Because of the narration style, we don’t know…
How Daisy and Gatsby met
What is said between Daisy and Gatsby in private
Why Daisy was invited to tea at Nick’s
How long it’s been since Daisy and Gatsby have seen each other
The significance of Gatsby’s name change best shows
He wanted to divorce his parents
He wanted to become the person he created in his head
He wanted to escape his criminal past
He wanted to create an entirely new life for himself
Gatsby’s ticket to new, glamorous life came from
Dan Gatz and inheriting his money
Dan Cody and inheriting his money
Dan Cody and learning the bond business
Dan Cody and living a lifestyle of luxury on a yacht
We know that Tom is suspicious of Gatsby when he says…
I’d like to know who he is and what he does…And I think I’ll make a point of finding out”
“I’d a little rather not be the polo player”
“Who is this Gatsby anyhow?
“Do you mind if I eat with some people over here? A fellow’s getting off some funny stuff”
The lines between Nick and Gatsby, “You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past? He cried incredulously. Why of course you can!” show…
Gatsby’s hope that he can relive his glory days when he was broke and in love
Nick’s realism that Daisy will never get divorced because she is Catholic
Gatsby’s unfaltering optimism for reaching his vision
Nick’s pessimism for not wanting Gatsby to fulfill his dreams
We infer that Gatsby and Daisy have been secretly seeing each other by the passage…
“Daisy comes over quite often—in the afternoons”
“My Finn informed me that Gatsby had dismissed every servant in his house a week ago…”
“It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night”
“I heard you fired all of your servants” “I wanted someone who wouldn’t gossip”
In chapter one, Nick states, “The summer really begins on the evening that I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans.” In chapter 7 when Nick is boarding a train to go to East Egg he says, “The…day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer.” The author most likely sets the story up this way to show:
As a signal that the weather will soon be changing
As a type of foreshadowing that Nick’s drama-free summer is about to end
As a type of foreshadowing that the end of East Egg parties is at hand
As a signal that the summer, as well as the story, is coming to a climatic end
Yet another way the author ties chapter 7 to chapter 1 is by…
Re-describing Tom as an athlete
Re-describing Jordan and Daisy in billowing white dresses
Re-describing the glamour of East Egg
Re-describing Nick’s voyage to East Egg
Gatsby describes Daisy's voice as being "full of money". Based upon this statement, what might Daisy be a symbol for in the novel?
love and passion
women and beauty
wealth and social class
race and culture
Tom finds out Daisy and Gatsby are in love by…
When Daisy arranges for her and Gatsby to be alone by saying, “You take Nick and Jordan. We’ll follow you in the coupe”
When Daisy meets the eyes of Gatsby and, “they stared together at each other, alone in space”
When he secretly sees Daisy, “kissing him on the mouth” and saying, “You know I love you.”
When Daisy says, “She doesn’t look like her father” referring to Pammy, her daughter.
In the hotel scene, Daisy can best be described as…
A woman who is desperately in love with two men
A woman who knows exactly what she wants
A woman who is bullied into staying with an abusive husband
A woman who is passive and lets others control her
“Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair”
Is said by Tom, has a tone of pessimism, and uses repetition to convey that life’s excitement diminishes as we age.
Is said by Tom, has a tone of sadness, and uses repetition to convey that life gets thinner as we age.
Is said by Nick, has a tone of pessimism, and uses repetition to convey that life’s excitement diminishes as we age.
Is said by Nick, has a tone of sadness, and uses repetition to convey that life gets thinner as we age.
By the passage, “This woman rushed out at us…It all happened in a minute but it seemed to me that she wanted to speak to us, thought we were somebody she knew,” we can infer that…
Myrtle thought Gatsby and Daisy would be able to save her from Wilson.
Myrtle thought Gatsby and Daisy were Tom because she saw Tom in Gatsby’s yellow car earlier.
Myrtle was trying to escape her husband because he was taking her away.
Myrtle thought Gatsby and Daisy were Tom because she saw Tom in Gatsby’s coupe earlier.
Nick tells the reader that Gatsby had "broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice" (Fitzgerald 148). This text evidence is an example of what literary device?
dialect
a simile
an idiom
theme
The evidence that best shows what Dr. T.J. Eckleburg is a symbol for…
“The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic”
“The giant of eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg kept their vigil…”
Wilson’s comment, “God sees everything” in conjunction with a description of the billboard.
“That’s an advertisement,” Michaelis assured him
The paradox, “what a grotesque thing a rose is” most likely means…
Roses, which represent love, are beautiful, but can sting with their thorns that represent love gone wrong
Roses, which represent love, are beautiful, but can sting with their thorns that represent hate and ugliness
Roses, which represent love, are gross
Roses, which represent love, are beautiful, but also ugly
The author most likely uses the word “holocaust” to describe Gatsby’s death scene because…
The author wants to bring an image of destruction or slaughter on mass scale because so many people have been killed in a short period of time.
The author wants to bring an image of destruction or slaughter on a mass scale because many people, hopes, and dreams have been destroyed in a short period of time.
This book was written during WWII and the author wanted to compare Gatsby’s death to the massacre that Hitler was causing at the time.
This book was written during WWI and the author wanted to compare Gatsby’s death to the massacre that Hitler was causing at the time.
Daisy’s actions in chapter 9 show that…
She has no depth of character, but she at least cares enough to show her respects to Gatsby
She has no depth of character; she lets others control her actions
She never really loved Gatsby, and was only using him for his money
She decides that she loves Tom more, but loves Gatsby enough to show her respects to him
What is sad about Henry C. Gatz?
He never understood his son
He hasn’t seen or heard from his son since he left home at age 18
He is very proud his son, but his son was ashamed of him
He hates his son
What is ironic about Gatsby’s funeral?
Gatsby’s father doesn’t want a big crowd there
Mr. Wolfsheim is afraid to attend
Even though thousands of people came to his parties, no one came to his funeral
The owl-eyed man thinks Gatsby faked his death like he faked his books
In the line, “Gatsby believed in the green light,” the green light most likely represents…
Money that Gatsby was never able to obtain
Nature because of being in the earth now that he is buried
Gatsby's eternal hope that his life would turn out exactly as he planned it.
Love and Gatsby's devotion to Daisy
