Quiz over Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby

Name:_____________________ Hour:__________________

Please answer the following questions with as much information as possible from the book.

1. What is the exact quote from Nick Carraway’s father that Nick has “been turning over in
[his] mind ever since”?
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______________________________________________.
2. Nick wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the
____________ __________.
3. Who is the only person exempt from this reaction? ________________
4. What is the only thing that Nick doesn’t like about Gatsby? (HINT: end of the
paragraph that answers the question to answer three.)
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5. Why does Nick go East? _______________________
6. When does Nick go East, exactly? ________________________________
7. List four different colors with page numbers found in Chapter 1.
a.
b.
c.
d.
8. When does the history of the summer really begin?
______________________________________________________________.
9. What does Tom seem to say that shows he is arrogant, demanding, and in control?
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10. Sitting on the couch, the two females dressed in white seem to represent or symbolize
two ___________________.
11. How old is Tom? ________________.
12. What is the name of the book Tom reads?______________________ What do you
suppose it is about? ______________________________________
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13. Who calls while everyone is eating dinner? _________________________.
14. Why is Daisy “pretty cynical about everything”? _____________________.
15. What does Daisy say when Pammy is born? _________________________.
16. Nick “heard some story of her (Jordan) too, a ___________, __________ _______.”
17. What does Daisy want to do to Nick and Jordan as Jordan is heading off to bed so she
can be ready for her golf tournament? _____________________
_____________________________________________________________.
18. What does Daisy hear about Nick and someone else from out West?
_______________________________. What is Nick’s reply? ____________
_____________________________.
19. Who does Nick see “standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of
the stars”? _________________
20. Once Nick sees this person, the man seems to reach his arms out toward the “dark
water.” “I [Nick] could have sworn he [the man] was ______________.”
21. What does Nick see across the bay? ____________________
22. Nick glances out across the bay to see what this man was watching. However, when
Nick turns back to the man, the man had ______________________.
 Quiz over Chapter 2 of The Great Gatsby

Name:______________________ Class:_______________________

Please answer the following questions with as much information as possible from the book.

1. What is the simile that is used to talk about the valley of ashes?
__________________________________________________________________
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2. What drifts endlessly over the valley of ashes? (HINT: eyes) ________________
___________________ Describe them from your book. ___________________
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3. What is Nick doing with Tom in the valley of ashes? ______________________
__________________________________________________________________
4. If Nick didn’t get off the train with Tom, what would Tom probably do?
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Again, this shows another example of Tom’s _________________ nature.
5. Whose business is located in the valley of ashes? Use description of sign from book.
____________________________________________________________
6. Describe George B. Wilson.___________________________________________
7. What does Wilson want from Tom? ____________________________________
8. Compare & contrast Myrtle and Daisy by looking at the descriptions from Chapter 1 and 2.
Daisy:____________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
Myrtel:___________________________________________________________
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9. Look at your notes on Dr. T. J. Eckleberg. Why does Tom frown at the sign as he leaves
Wilson’s garage? _____________________________________________
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10. George is so ______________ he doesn’t know he’s alive.
11. What kind of taxi cab does Myrtle select? _______________ Why?___________
_____________________________________________
12. What does Catherine whisper to Nick while at the party? ___________________
______________________________________________________
13. According to Catherine, why don’t Tom and Daisy divorce? _________________
14. What did George do for Myrtle and his wedding that was so odd?
__________________________________________________________________
15. When Myrtle first met Tom on the train, what did she say “over and over”?
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16. What does Tom do to Myrtle at the party? ______________________________
Why?:____________________________________________________________
 Quiz over Chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby

1. Why do you suppose Fitzgerald has men and girls attending Gatsby’s parties?
________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________

2. Find and list three different colors (not fruits) with page numbers from Chapter 3.
a.
b.
c.

3. How many people are invited to Gatsby’s parties?________________ Who is the only
one invited?____________________________ Why is he the only one? (HINT: his
proximity) ______________________________________________________________
4. What does Lucille receive from Gatsby?_____________________ How much was it to
replace? ______________________________
5. What are four specific rumors about Gatsby from Chapter 3?
a.
b.
c.
d.

6. What do Nick and Gatsby have in common that is the “ice-breaker” for their
conversational piece at the party?
__________________________________________________________
7. What noun does Gatsby use to continually address Nick?________________________
8. How old is Gatsby? _______________
9. Why did Gatsby have to leave Nick’s company so quickly during their first
conversation?_______________________
10. Describe what Nick sees as the orchestra leader starts to play Vladimir Tostoff’s Jazz
History of the World? Summarize using all three lines.
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______________________________________________________________________
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11. Who wants to see Jordan, alone? ___________________________
12. Why are the husbands and wives fighting at the conclusion of the party?____________
______________________________________________________________________
13. Why is Jordan so excited as she exits the library after talking to Gatsby? ____________
______________________________________________________________________
14. What are Nick and Gatsby going to do “tomorrow morning” at nine o’clock?
_______________________________________________
15. Why did Gatsby leave this conversation so quickly?_____________________________
16. What happened as everyone was leaving Gatsby’s party (HINT: wheel)?
_______________________________________________________________________
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17. What are three things Nick talks about, or does, after he sees the strange event after
Gatsby’s party?
1.
2.
3.
18. A few pages before Chapter 3 ends, what is it that Nick remembers that he had forgotten
on the first night at the Buchanan’s in regards to Jordan Baker? Be specific.
_______________________________________________________________________
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19. What does Nick accuse Jordan of being as they drive off on the first “so-called” date?
________________________________________________________ What is her
reply? _________________________________________________________________
20. What is Nick’s cardinal virtue?______________________________________________
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 The Great Gatsby Chapter 4 Quiz

Answer the following questions using your book. Only answers from the book will
be correct.

1. Who is Klipspringer? ___________________________________________

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2. What does Gatsby show Nick that shows he was in the war? (Be Specific)
____________________________________________________________
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3. What happened to Rosy Rothenthal? ______________________________
____________________________________________________________
4. What does Mr. Wolfsheim have for cuff buttons? _____________________
____________________________________________________________
5. Wolsheim says Gatsby is very careful about whom? ___________________
____________________________________________________________
6. Who do Nick and Gatsby meet as they are leaving the restaurant?
_____________________
7. What came over Gatsby’s face as he shakes hands with the above
mentioned person? _____________________________________________
8. What year does Jordan’s story about her and Daisy’s life begin? ________
9. Daisy was what in Louisville? ___________________________________
10. Who does Jordan say she admires the most? _________________________
11. Now, Jordan says this officer looks at Daisy in a way __________________
____________________________________________________________
12. What is this lieutenant’s name? _______________________
13. Where did this soldier now have to go? _____________________________
14. Even though Daisy was sad and lonely, what does she do in June?
____________________________________________________________

15. Who does Jordan find the night before Daisy’s bridal dinner in Daisy’s bed?
__________________________ Describe the scene filling in the blanks
below. _______________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
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16. Why do you suppose Daisy is so sad and miserable? (HINT: soldier)
_______________________________________________________
17. Tom gets into a wreck in Santa Barbara. Who is with
him?________________________________________________________
18. What does Daisy hear about six weeks ago when Nick first went over to
visit her and Tom?____________________________
19. Why does Gatsby buy the house in West Egg? _______________________
____________________________________________________________
20. What is the “BIG” favor that Gatsby wanted Jordan to ask Nick to do for
him? ________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
21. What does Jordan think Gatsby “half expected . . .some night”?
____________________________________________________________
22. T or F Nick is supposed to call and tell Daisy that Gatsby wants to meet
her at Nick’s.
 The Great Gatsby Chapter 5 Quiz

1. Who is Daisy not supposed to bring to Nick’s house? ________________

2. Name two things Gatsby does to Nick’s house to show that he wants to
impress Daisy? _______________________ _____________________
3. What time is it when Gatsby wants to leave? _____________________
4. List three colors with page numbers found in Chapter 5.
a.
b.
c.
5. What is wrong with the living room when Nick and Daisy enter?
____________________________________________________________
6. Describe Gatsby at the front door. _______________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
7. How long has it been since Gatsby and Daisy met? _________________
_______________
8. What is Gatsby afraid he has done by inviting Daisy over?
___________________________________
9. Describe Daisy and Gatsby as Nick comes in from outside to see what the
two of them are doing?
a. Daisy:

b. Gatsby:

10. Where does Gatsby invite Daisy and Nick? ________________________

11. How does Gatsby’s house match his persona when he and Nick first see it
when they go outside? ________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
_
12. How many years did it take him to buy it?_____________
13. What is Gatsby’s reply when Nick asks him “what business” he was in?
_________________________________
14. What two businesses was Gatsby in? ________________
_____________________________
15. How does Gatsby value the items in his house? _____________________
____________________________________________________
16. What can Gatsby see outside his window when there isn’t a mist?
____________________________________________________________
17. What does Daisy want to put Gatsby on and push him around?
________________________________________________
18. What are Gatsby and Daisy doing when Nick finally leaves them alone?
____________________________________________________________
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 The Great Gatsby Chapter 7 Quiz

1. What happened to Gatsby’s servants? ______________________

Why? ______________________________________________________
2. What does Tom say about family life? ____________________________
___________________________________________________________
3. What does Gatsby tell Tom in the heat of the argument that Daisy doesn’t
want him to say? ____________________________________________
4. What does Tom say about Daisy, now? ___________________________
5. Daisy admits what to Tom?_________________________
6. What is Tom going to do from now on in regards to Daisy?
___________________________
7. Look at the paragraph that begins “It passed, and he began to talk excitedly
to Daisy, . . . What is now Gatsby’s reality? _________________________
____________________________________________________________
8. Why do you now think that Tom thinks it is okay for Daisy to ride with
Gatsby in Gatsby’s car back to the Buchanan home? __________________
____________________________________________________________
9. How old is Nick? ______
a. What does his age symbolize?
_________________________________________________________
b. How does his age match Gatsby’s current feelings/emotions?
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
10. Where does Wilson have Myrtle? _________________________________
11. What is Myrtle yelling down to George? ___________________________
12. What happened to Myrtle? _______________________________________
13. Who does Wilson think it was? __________________________
14. Who does Tom think it was? ____________________________
15. Who was it? ______________________________
16. Why is Gatsby standing out side of the Buchanan home? _______________
____________________________________
17. According to the Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms, “a similar
sense of detached superiority is achieved by dramatic/tragic irony, in
which the audience knows more about a character’s situation than the
character does, foreseeing an outcome contrary to the character’s
expectations” (130).
a. What is the dramatic/tragic irony in Chapter 7? (HINT: think of Gatsby’s
dream and what happened in the chapter.) Use the back of the sheet.
Chapter 8 Study Guide – Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

1. How does Fitzgerald achieve a melancholic mood in the beginning of this

chapter?
2. How are seasons used in constructing this novel?
3. When is this chapter taking place?
4. Who is Dan Cody and what is his significance in Gatsby's life?
5. How does Nick's statement "You're worth the whole bunch put together"
show a change in Nick from the beginning of the novel?
6. How does T. J. Eckleberg affect Mr. Wilson?
7. Why did Nick suggest that Gatsby go away? What was Gatsby's response?
8. What were Gatsby's intentions at first when he met Daisy?
9. Where had Gatsby met Daisy, according to the story he tells Nick?
10. How long did Daisy and Gatsby go out before he left for the war?
11. What happened to Gatsby after the war?
12. While Gatsby was in war, what did Daisy do?
13. Why didn’t Gatsby return to Daisy immediately after the war?
14. What did Gatsby mean when he said, "In any case, it was just personal"?
15. Why didn't Gatsby want the gardener to drain the pool?
16. What did Nick mean when he said, "They're a rotten crowd-you're worth the
whole damn bunch put together"?
17. What does Wilson discover? What does he do?
18. Who said, "You may fool me, but you can't fool God," and what does it
mean?
19. The words "...and the holocaust was complete" refers to what two
immediate events, and suggest what larger meaning?
20. How late does Gatsby stand outside Daisy’s house, waiting to see if she
needed him?
21. Why is Gatsby’s house unkempt?
22. What might Fitzgerald mean in describing Daisy’s porch as “bright with the
bought luxury of star shine”?