This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Novels > The Great Gatsby – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Great Gatsby Quiz 13 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Dishonesty, deception A) Disapprove. B) Untidy. C) Astonished. D) Deceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Deceit. 2. Sociable; jovial or festive A) Convivial. B) Vacuous. C) Provincial. D) Pastoral. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Convivial. 3. Which is NOT true about Gatsby's car? A) It had a windshield. B) It's cream colored. C) It's steering wheel is on the other side. D) It was quite large. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It's steering wheel is on the other side. 4. What does Nick do in an attempt to give Daisy and Gatsby some privacy? A) He goes into town. B) He goes outside to sit and think. C) He reads in his bedroom. D) He makes a few business calls in the study. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He goes outside to sit and think. 5. Identify the word which means:cheerful and friendly A) Convivial. B) Subterfuge. C) Impetuously. D) Retracted. E) Ascertain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Convivial. 6. What does the author say about "The American Dream?" A) It can be obtained through money. B) True love is everyone's American Dream. C) Honesty is the only way to the American Dream. D) The American Dream is the answer to all problems. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It can be obtained through money. 7. Identify the word which means:to find out; learn with certainty. A) Ascertain. B) Convivial. C) Impetuously. D) Subterfuge. E) Retracted. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ascertain. 8. Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; cocky A) Supercilious. B) Ambiguously. C) Vehemently. D) Permeate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Supercilious. 9. How many steps are there to identify a theme? A) 2. B) 4. C) 5. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4. 10. Equal in size or proportion A) Fortuitously. B) Commensurate. C) Expostulation. D) Provincial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Commensurate. 11. After three hours of ..... rain, the game was abandoned. A) Truculent. B) Intermittent. C) Elude. D) Forlorn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Intermittent. 12. What word means able to be seen or noticed? A) Resolve. B) Jovial. C) Disdain. D) Perceptible. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perceptible. 13. With excessive greed and hunger A) Ravenously. B) Complacent. C) Presumptuous. D) Formidable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ravenously. 14. Where is Gatsby originally from? A) Lake Superior. B) North Dakota. C) Road cancer. D) Boston. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) North Dakota. 15. What did Tom suspect about Gatsby? A) He was a bootlegger. B) He was a spy. C) He was a crook. D) He was a magician. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was a bootlegger. 16. Who killed Jay Gatsby? A) Meyer Wolfsheim. B) Nick Carraway. C) George Wilson. D) Tom Buchanan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) George Wilson. 17. Daisy seems especially impressed by Gatsby's shirts. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 18. Why did Gatsby believe he could repeat the past? A) He believed in magic. B) He had a time machine. C) He thought everything would be the same. D) He had a plan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He thought everything would be the same. 19. I did not want to tell mom what I really wanted for Christmas, but I offered an ..... that I hoped she would figure out. A) Elusive. B) Ingratiate. C) Evasion. D) Hinting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hinting. 20. Define:explicable A) Continuing without stopping. B) Incapable of being depleted/exhausted; tireless. C) Possible to explain; explainable. D) Vigorous in demands or complaint. E) Continuing without stopping. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Possible to explain; explainable. 21. Whose eyes do the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg belong to? A) An advertisement for an oculist. B) A passing traveler. C) A local resident. D) A real doctor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An advertisement for an oculist. 22. What are Daisy and Tom doing at the end of chapter 7? A) They are talking and conspiring at the dinner table. B) They are arguing after the events of the Plaza Hotel showdown. C) They flee town after at the car accident. D) They attend an East Egg party and act as if nothing happened. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are talking and conspiring at the dinner table. 23. What happens to "Owl Eyes" ' as he is leaving Gatsby's party? A) His friend crashes their car and he doesn't know what's happened. B) Helps Nick get home. C) Passes out in the library. D) Saves Nick from getting beat up by drunks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His friend crashes their car and he doesn't know what's happened. 24. Very unusual; remarkable A) Clever. B) Extraordinary. C) Scornful. D) Astonished. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extraordinary. 25. What is the meaning of "Commensurate" ? A) Without a clearly defined shape or form. B) Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion. C) Corresponding in size or degree. D) Eager or quick to argue or fight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Corresponding in size or degree. 26. Who narrates the novel? A) Jay Gatsby. B) Daisy Buchanan. C) Nick Carraway. D) We don't know. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nick Carraway. 27. Within Tom and Myrtle's apartment was a copy of famous inkblot image. Nick described that it sometimes looked like a "hen sitting on a blurred rock;" then "resolved itself into a bonnet, and the countenance of a stout lady" (Fitzgerald 29). Such a ..... picture gained popularity in the 1920s when Sigmund Freud's psychological theories were becoming accepted. A) Obstinate. B) Nebulous. C) Gaudy. D) Punctilious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nebulous. 28. What does Tom have in New York? A) A car dealership. B) A law firm. C) A mistress. D) Polo ponies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A mistress. 29. After numerous calls and pleading with Wolfsheim to come to Gatsby's funeral, a ..... Nick realizes that "no one" will come. His hope at "finding someone" for Gatsby is all in vain. A) Forlorn. B) Laden. C) Ceasless. D) Superfluous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Forlorn. 30. What is Daisy Buchanan's relationship to Nick Carraway? A) Neighbor. B) Friend. C) Sister. D) Cousin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cousin. 31. Occurring occasionally or at regular or irregular intervals; periodic A) Turgid. B) Portentous. C) Insidious. D) Intermittent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intermittent. 32. According to Gatsby, Meyer Wolfsheim is ..... A) A Dentist. B) A Banker. C) A Gambler. D) An Athlete. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Gambler. 33. Where does Gatsby live? A) East Egg. B) In the Midwest. C) West Egg. D) In New York City. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) West Egg. 34. Like the previous one, the New York room scene in Chapter 8 contains a ..... when Tom laughs at Gatsby and tells Gatsby, "You're crazy!" (Fitzgerald 131). ' A) Rancor. B) Tumult. C) Pasquinade. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tumult. 35. What rumor does Catherine repeat about Gatsby? A) He delivers sandwiches to parties. B) He is related to Kaiser Wilhelm. C) He has a woman in New York. D) He doesn't believe in divorce. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He is related to Kaiser Wilhelm. 36. Did F. Scot Fitzgerald go into the military ..... ? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 37. Identify who said the quote: "Civilization's going to pieces ..... I've gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read 'The Rise of the Coloured Empire' by this man Goddard? ..... The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be ..... will be utterly submerged." A) Daisy Buchanan. B) Nick Carraway. C) Jordan Baker. D) Tom Buchanan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tom Buchanan. 38. Gatsby made his fortune in A) The garment industry. B) Real estate. C) Steel. D) Organized crime and bootlegging. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organized crime and bootlegging. 39. What were the book pages in Gatsby's librery like? A) Uncut. B) Yellowish. C) Gatsby had no library. D) Unwritten. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Uncut. 40. Scanty means "lacking in extenct or quality" A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 41. Which detail best supports the idea that Tom was hurt by Daisy's actions? A) He made her pack up and leave the day after Myrtle was killed. B) He told her that their daughter is no more than a fool. C) He brought up what he did after they were first married. D) He told her to go back to the house with Gatsby in Gatsby's car. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He brought up what he did after they were first married. 42. What does Gatsby introduce Tom as at his party? A) "Horse Boy". B) "The Average Male". C) "The Cheater". D) "The Polo Player". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "The Polo Player". 43. Daisy tells Nick, "I'm pretty cynical about everything." What reason exists for Daisy's cynicism? A) Nick ignored her throughout dinner. B) She has no real friends. C) Tom is cheating on her again. D) Jordan has lied to her. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tom is cheating on her again. 44. What does Mr. McKee tell Nick about Gatsby? A) Gatsby donated a half-million dollars to an orphanage in his home town. B) Gatsby has recently been released from a mental hospital. C) Gatsby is the nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm. D) Gatsby is the son of a Texas oil tycoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gatsby is the nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm. 45. How does Daisy react to Gatsby's mansion? A) She is neutral because wealth does not impress her. B) She is clearly skeptical of Gatsby's "new money" status. C) She is jealous because Gatsby's mansion is bigger than hers. D) She is impressed, but she doesn't know how Gatsby lives there all alone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She is impressed, but she doesn't know how Gatsby lives there all alone. 46. The textual evidence shows what common theme topics in the novel? A) Hope, love, survival. B) Hope, selfishness, family relationships. C) Hope, love, selfishness. D) Selfishness, death, family relationships. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hope, love, selfishness. 47. Since I couldn't remember what the term "complementary" meant when discussing angles, the answer to the math question ..... my understanding. A) Eluded. B) Deranged. C) Harrowing. D) Amorphous. E) Feigned. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eluded. 48. F Scot Fitzgerald Met his wife in the year ..... ? A) 2018. B) 1912. C) 1945. D) 1917. E) 1948. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1917. 49. Which character is said to have "fixed" the 1919 Baseball World's Series? A) Wolfsheim. B) Nick. C) Tom. D) Gatsby. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wolfsheim. 50. To do something you consider beneath your social position A) Contemptuous. B) Condescend. C) Coherence. D) Vehemently. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Condescend. 51. The coach urged his team not to be ..... following their four consecutive wins. A) Implored. B) Interminable. C) Complacent. D) Tumultuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Complacent. 52. What is the definition of 'proprietor'? A) Difficult to see, understand, or remember. B) Taking the lead and starting something. C) The owner of something. D) To move or jump with a spring. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The owner of something. 53. Gatsby claims to be from the ..... part of the country and specifically from the city of ..... A) Midwest, Louisville. B) Southeast, Atlanta. C) West, San Francisco. D) Midwest, San Francisco. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Midwest, San Francisco. 54. Pleasing in appearance A) Provincial. B) Garrulous. C) Formidable. D) Aesthetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aesthetic. 55. What is George Wilson looking out the window at when he says, "God sees everything." ? A) The green light. B) Gatsby's car. C) The ash heap. D) The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg. 56. What happened to the girl who tore her dress the last time she was at Gatsby's? A) She showed up wearing the same dress a second time. B) She got in an argument with her husband. C) Gatsby bought her a new one. D) She drank too much and passed out. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gatsby bought her a new one. 57. Why does Daisy cry into a pile of Gatsby's shirts? A) She realizes that she could never have gotten the man she really wanted. B) She realizes that she could have had it all:money/security and the man she truly loved. C) She knew she would have to break Gatsby's heart. D) She knew she would have to break Tom's heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She realizes that she could have had it all:money/security and the man she truly loved. 58. Define the word:convivial A) Taken back or withdrawn. B) Deceit used in order to achieve one's goal. C) To find out; learn with certainty. D) Cheerful and friendly. E) Suddenly, impulsively. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cheerful and friendly. 59. When Daisy arrives at Nick's house for tea, what sarcastic comment does she make? A) She mentions that Tom is now suspicious. B) She asks if Nick is in love with her. C) She ironically jokes about Nick setting her up with someone. D) She asks Nick if he secretly hates Tom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She asks if Nick is in love with her. 60. Who does Nick "attach" himself to at the party? A) Daisy. B) Gatsby. C) Jordan. D) Tom. 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