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Great Gatsby review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Daisy's association with gold and silver symbolizes her

a)

loyalty

b)

purity

c)

status

d)

greed

2.

This was a forlorn hope—he was almost sure that [he] had no friend; there was not enough of him for his wife.

a)

Ewing Klipspringer

b)

T.J. Eckleburg

c)

George Wilson

d)

Meyer Wolfsheim

3.

Where did George Wilson learn that Gatsby owned the yellow car?

a)

a local garage

b)

Michaelis

c)

Tom

d)

Nick

4.

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… .

a)

Myrtle Wilson

b)

Daisy Buchanan

c)

Jordan Baker

d)

Pamela Buchanan

5.

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.

a)

Meyer Wolfsheim

b)

George Wilson

c)

Dan Cody

d)

Ewing Klipsringer

6.

The final paragraph ("boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.") suggests that the green light represents

a)

love

b)

wealth

c)

unattainable dreams

d)

luck

7.

Nick's belief that he and Gatsby were good friends despite knowing nothing about him is an example of

a)

synecdoche

b)

paradox

c)

irony

d)

personification

8.

The Valley of Ashes most closely symbolizes

a)

the inevitability of death

b)

the hopelessness of poverty

c)

the emptiness of a failed relationship

d)

American greed

9.

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.

a)

Nick Carraway

b)

Jay Gatsby

c)

Meyer Wolfsheim

d)

Tom Buchanan

10.

What does Daisy say she wants for her daughter?

a)

a happy marriage

b)

to be smart and kind

c)

to be a beautiful fool

d)

to be famous

11.

[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.

a)

Catherine

b)

Jordan Baker

c)

Myrtle Wilson

d)

Daisy Buchanan

12.

Gatsby's millions came from

a)

organized crime

b)

wealthy relatives

c)

oil investment

d)

Dan Cody

13.

The flowers were unnecessary, for at two o’clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby’s, with innumerable receptacles to contain it.

a)

innuendo

b)

simile

c)

hyperbole

d)

paradox

14.

Why did Gatsby leave college?

a)

He couldn't afford tuition

b)

He thought it was beneath him

c)

He wanted to inherit money

d)

He flunked out

15.

What favor does Gatsby ask of Nick?

a)

sell bonds for him

b)

distract Tom

c)

invite Daisy to tea

d)

court Jordan

16.

When Gatsby demands Daisy tell Tom she never loved him, she says

a)

"I can't leave Pammy."

b)

"You ask too much."

c)

"I never loved either of you."

d)

"There's someone else."

17.

The eyes of Dr. Eckleburg most closely symbolize

a)

the ever-watching eyes of God

b)

the constant scrutiny of gossip

c)

persistent government surveillance

d)

the irony of Wilson's obliviousness

18.

Aside from Nick and Mr. Gatz, who attends the funeral?

a)

Daisy

b)

Owl-Eyes

c)

Wolfsheim

d)

Klipspringer

19.

Which is not a rumor told about Gatsby?

a)

He is a cousin of Wilhelm II

b)

He sells alcohol illegally

c)

He killed Dan Cody

d)

He is a German spy

20.

Why does Daisy have such a good reputation?

a)

She's very kind

b)

She's very generous

c)

She doesn't drink

d)

She's a gracious hostess of classy dinners