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Gatsby_Ch. 8&9 Vocab

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"...of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and _______ of this year’s shining motor-cars and of dances whose flowers were scarcely withered."

a)

redolent

b)

unscrupulous

c)

whim

d)

corroborate

2.

"He took what he could get, ravenously and _________ — eventually he took Daisy one still October night, took her because he had no real right to touch her hand."

a)

redolent

b)

unscrupulously

c)

whim

d)

corroborate

3.

"As a matter of fact, he had no such facilities — he had no comfortable family standing behind him, and he was liable at the _____ of an impersonal government to be blown anywhere about the world.

a)

redolent

b)

unscrupulously

c)

whim

d)

corroborate

4.

"'I suppose Daisy’ll call too.' He looked at me anxiously, as if he hoped I’d ________ this."

a)

redolent

b)

unscrupulously

c)

whim

d)

corroborate

5.

"I suppose there’d be a curious crowd around there all day with little boys searching for dark spots in the dust, and some ________ man..."

a)

garrulous

b)

amorphous

c)

holocaust

d)

adventitious

6.

"A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about … like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the _______ trees."

a)

garrulous

b)

amorphous

c)

holocaust

d)

adventitious

7.

"It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass, and the _______ was complete."

a)

garrulous

b)

amorphous

c)

holocaust

d)

adventitious

8.

"Someone with a positive manner, perhaps a detective, used the expression 'madman.' as he bent over Wilson’s body that afternoon, and the __________ authority of his voice set the key for the newspaper reports next morning."

a)

garrulous

b)

amorphous

c)

holocaust

d)

adventitious

9.

"So Wilson was reduced to a man '_________ by grief' in order that the case might remain in its simplest form."

a)

deranged

b)

surmise

c)

sullen

d)

pander

10.

"From the moment I telephoned news of the catastrophe to West Egg village, every _______ about him, and every practical question, was referred to me."

a)

deranged

b)

surmise

c)

sullen

d)

pander

11.

"I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a ________, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon."

a)

deranged

b)

surmise

c)

sullen

d)

pander

12.

"Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once ________ in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams..."

a)

deranged

b)

surmise

c)

sullen

d)

pandered

13.

"...for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an ________ contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder."

a)

aesthetic

b)

commensurate

c)

elude

14.

"...for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something _________ to his capacity for wonder."

a)

aesthetic

b)

commensurate

c)

elude

15.

"It _______ us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning..."

a)

aesthetic

b)

commensurate

c)

eluded