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WorksheetsGreat Gatsby review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Daisy's association with gold and silver symbolizes her
loyalty
purity
status
greed
This was a forlorn hope—he was almost sure that [he] had no friend; there was not enough of him for his wife.
Ewing Klipspringer
T.J. Eckleburg
George Wilson
Meyer Wolfsheim
Where did George Wilson learn that Gatsby owned the yellow car?
a local garage
Michaelis
Tom
Nick
That was it. I’d never understood before. [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… .
Myrtle Wilson
Daisy Buchanan
Jordan Baker
Pamela Buchanan
I remember the portrait of him up in Gatsby’s bedroom, a gray, florid man with a hard, empty face — the pioneer debauchee, who during one phase of American life brought back to the Eastern seaboard the savage violence of the frontier brothel and saloon.
Meyer Wolfsheim
George Wilson
Dan Cody
Ewing Klipsringer
The final paragraph ("boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.") suggests that the green light represents
love
wealth
unattainable dreams
luck
Nick's belief that he and Gatsby were good friends despite knowing nothing about him is an example of
synecdoche
paradox
irony
personification
The Valley of Ashes most closely symbolizes
the inevitability of death
the hopelessness of poverty
the emptiness of a failed relationship
American greed
They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together. This was a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn’t believe it — I had no sight into Daisy’s heart, but I felt that [he] would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.
Nick Carraway
Jay Gatsby
Meyer Wolfsheim
Tom Buchanan
What does Daisy say she wants for her daughter?
a happy marriage
to be smart and kind
to be a beautiful fool
to be famous
[She] instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men, and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible. She was 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.
Catherine
Jordan Baker
Myrtle Wilson
Daisy Buchanan
Gatsby's millions came from
organized crime
wealthy relatives
oil investment
Dan Cody
The flowers were unnecessary, for at two o’clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby’s, with innumerable receptacles to contain it.
innuendo
simile
hyperbole
paradox
Why did Gatsby leave college?
He couldn't afford tuition
He thought it was beneath him
He wanted to inherit money
He flunked out
What favor does Gatsby ask of Nick?
sell bonds for him
distract Tom
invite Daisy to tea
court Jordan
When Gatsby demands Daisy tell Tom she never loved him, she says
"I can't leave Pammy."
"You ask too much."
"I never loved either of you."
"There's someone else."
The eyes of Dr. Eckleburg most closely symbolize
the ever-watching eyes of God
the constant scrutiny of gossip
persistent government surveillance
the irony of Wilson's obliviousness
Aside from Nick and Mr. Gatz, who attends the funeral?
Daisy
Owl-Eyes
Wolfsheim
Klipspringer
Which is not a rumor told about Gatsby?
He is a cousin of Wilhelm II
He sells alcohol illegally
He killed Dan Cody
He is a German spy
Why does Daisy have such a good reputation?
She's very kind
She's very generous
She doesn't drink
She's a gracious hostess of classy dinners
