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The Great Gatsby Ch. 2 & 3

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 38mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the “valley of ashes”?
a)
An area in East Egg where a fire had been many years ago.
b)
A lower-middle class area separating West Egg from New York City. It is dirty and where most of the laborers live.
c)
An industrial zone
d)
An imaginary place used as a metaphor for Gatsby’s lonliness
2.
What are the “eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg”?
a)
Seeing eye dogs that the doctor trains for the Association of the Blind.
b)
A group of security guards who monitor the doctor’s home and offices.
c)
A new kind of contact lens that the doctor has just developed.
d)
A picture on a billboard overlooking the valley of ashes.
3.
Who does Tom take Nick to meet?
a)
His mistress
b)
Dr. T.J. Eckleburg
c)
His parents
d)
Jay Gatsby
4.
Who wants to buy Tom's car?
a)
Nick
b)
George Wilson
c)
Meyer Wolfsheim
d)
Jordan
5.
Who are Myrtle and George Wilson?
a)
Myrtle is Tom’s cousin.  George is her son. 
b)
George is Tom’s business partner.  Myrtle is George’s wife.
c)
Myrtle is Tom’s mistress.  George is Myrtle’s husband. 
d)
They are the caretakers of Tom’s estate.
6.
What does Mrs. Wilson get Tom to buy her while she’s out with Tom and Nick?
a)
sandwiches for lunch
b)
a dog
c)
a new dress
d)
cufflinks for Tom
7.
Where do Tom, Myrtle and Nick  go?
a)
Tom’s favorite restaurant
b)
Nick's office in the city
c)
The dealer where Tom bought his last car
d)
The secret apartment Tom rents and to which he takes his mistress 
8.

Numerous rumors about Gatsby are probably added to create....

a)

He once killed a man

b)

Sympathy and concern over Gatbsy

c)

Skepticism about Nick's credibility as a narrator

d)

Mystery and suspense

9.

Why do readers meet Gatsby late in the story (at the end of chapter 3)?

a)

because Gatsby is not significant to the tale

b)

to clarify the complex relationships of the Buchanans

c)

to build suspense and interest in his character

d)

to set up the old way of life as a contrast

10.

The third chapter ends with Nick describing himself as one of the few honest man he knows. The author is probably making this idea clear to...

a)

to create a division between Nick and Jordan

b)

to clarify the normalcy of dishonesty during this time frame

c)

to suggest his affects on his dubious friends

d)

to suggest his reliability as a narrator and person

11.

Based on the way the plot is structured, what do readers expect will happen after chapter 3?

a)

Jordan will fall in love with her party escort, the undergraduate.

b)

Nick and Gatsby will die in flames in the hydroplane.

c)

Nick will recount difficult meetings at work in the bond business

d)

Nick will learn the story behind Gatsby's identity.

12.

Jordan "was incredibly dishonest," Nick explains. She even lied about leaving the top of a car open during a rainstorm. What is the most probably reason that the author characterizes Jordan in this way?

a)

To be truthful to her inherent traits

b)

To suggest the deep lack of morals of this wealthy class of the 1920s

c)

To create interest in Nick and Jordan's relationship

d)

To set her apart from other women in the novel