This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Novels > The Great Gatsby – Quiz 21 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Great Gatsby Quiz 21 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When was Scot Fitzgerald discharged from the army ..... ? A) 1934. B) 2018. C) 1926. D) 1919. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1919. 2. Based on the "bad driver" metaphor, who does Jordan feel is the "bad driver" in her life? A) Tom. B) Daisy. C) Her aunt. D) Nick. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nick. 3. Which of the following quotes illustrates the irony of Gatsby's funeral? A) I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation. B) "Why, my God! they used to go there by the hundreds.". C) "Jimmy always liked it better down East.". D) "It was all in the Chicago newspaper. I started right away.". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Why, my God! they used to go there by the hundreds.". 4. Held back an emotion or thought with difficulty A) Punctilious. B) Suppressed. C) Defunct. D) Obstinate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suppressed. 5. During the inquest, Catherine responds A) By breaking down and crying. B) With amazing strength of character. C) As if she doesn't care. D) By not showing up. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) With amazing strength of character. 6. Why did Daisy not enjoy herself at the party? A) She didn't like Gatsby's house. B) She didn't like the music. C) She didn't like the food. D) She didn't like the strangers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She didn't like the strangers. 7. Upon what issue do Nick and Gatsby disagree? A) The ability to repeat the past. B) The ability to move up in social class. C) The success of World War I. D) The sin of adultery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The ability to repeat the past. 8. Where did Daisy and Jordan grow up? A) Louisville. B) San Francisco. C) Chicago. D) New Orleans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Louisville. 9. The light creates desire, hope, and motivation, and becomes a symbol for Gatsby's love ..... Daisy. A) At. B) In. C) For. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) For. 10. In the restaurant, Nick and Gatby come across A) Gatsby's relatives. B) Tom Buchanan. C) Nick's sister. D) Myrtle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tom Buchanan. 11. Which word best describes something that is 'ostentatious'? A) Boring. B) Invisible. C) Intentionally attention-grabbing. D) Unremarkable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intentionally attention-grabbing. 12. Insisting on immediate attention or obedience A) Rotogravure. B) Effeminate. C) Peremptory. D) Transcendent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peremptory. 13. Why does Gatsby throw extravagant parties at his mansion? A) To attract attention and gain social status. B) To entertain his close friends. C) To impress Tom Buchanan. D) To distract himself from his loneliness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To attract attention and gain social status. 14. What is the effect of Nick's background and values on the story? A) It brings readers deeper into the story through his skeptical narrative. B) It gives readers a glimpse of 1940s life. C) It tells the story through a genuine, rather naive perspective. D) It shows how jaded the war made him. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It tells the story through a genuine, rather naive perspective. 15. An author's use of vivid and descriptive language; appeals to human senses A) Protagonist. B) Color symbolism. C) Setting. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 16. What is Jay Gatsby's background? A) Born into a wealthy family in New York City and later lost all his fortune. B) Grew up in a middle-class family in California and became a successful businessman. C) Born into a poor farming family in North Dakota and later reinvented himself as a wealthy and mysterious figure in New York City. D) Was an orphan who grew up in an orphanage and later became a famous actor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Born into a poor farming family in North Dakota and later reinvented himself as a wealthy and mysterious figure in New York City. 17. How old was Gatsby when he changed his name? A) 5. B) 12. C) 25. D) 17. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 17. 18. When Gatsby meets Pammy his response is A) Excitement. B) Boredom. C) Wonderment. D) Hate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wonderment. 19. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is labeled literary realism and not a ..... ; however, it is true that within the novel, Fitzgerald creates a satire of the wealthy, upper class as "careless people." A) Portentous. B) Tumult. C) Pasquinade. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pasquinade. 20. What is the setting of "The Great Gatsby" A) 1920s Chicago. B) 1930s NY. C) 1920s Long Island. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1920s Long Island. 21. The quality of not being open or truthful A) Insincerity. B) Annoyance. C) Anxious. D) Carelessly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Insincerity. 22. How does Gatsby's desperation to make Nick happy affect his actions in Chapter 5? A) He shows that he is willing to do anything to impress Daisy. B) He cancels the meeting and avoids seeing Daisy. C) He becomes angry and confrontational with Nick. D) He forgets important details and becomes disorganized. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He shows that he is willing to do anything to impress Daisy. 23. Where did Tom and Daisy Buchanan go? A) France. B) We don't know. C) Gatsby's funeral. D) Chicago. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) We don't know. 24. What is the role of Myrtle in Chapter 7 of 'The Great Gatsby'? A) She is killed in an accident involving Daisy's car. B) She is revealed to be Gatsby's secret lover. C) She is Tom's mistress and causes tension between him and Daisy. D) She is Nick's love interest and helps him understand the other characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She is killed in an accident involving Daisy's car. 25. What is the significance of Gatsby's funeral in Chapter 9? A) It highlights the emptiness of his life. B) It represents the end of the American Dream. C) It showcases his wealth and status. D) It symbolizes the end of the Jazz Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It highlights the emptiness of his life. 26. All of the following show irony about Nick's honesty EXCEPT? A) All the characters lie in the novel. B) Nick is dating two girls, both unaware of the other. C) Nick has heard lies and not told the truth about them. D) Nick does not judge other characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nick does not judge other characters. 27. What word means:capable of being perceived by the senses or precisely realized by the mind A) Clamorously. B) Explicable. C) Incessant. D) Tangible. E) Inexhaustible. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tangible. 28. John's ..... behavior is going to get him arrested one day A) Complacent. B) Intermittent. C) Deplorable. D) Forlorn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deplorable. 29. How does Myrtle's demeanor change when she changes clothes in the New York City apartment? A) She becomes quiet and sweet. B) She acts intelligent. C) She is thankful for the new clothes. D) She shows hauteur and tries to act wealthy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She shows hauteur and tries to act wealthy. 30. Which of the two Eggs is the "less fashionable" ? A) East. B) West. C) The green ones. D) Easter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) West. 31. T or F:Gatsby believes it is impossible to "repeat the past" A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 32. Which of the following is best illustrated by the quote? "She was extended full length at her end of the divan, completely motionless, and with her chin raised a little, as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall." A) Symbol. B) Conflict. C) Character. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Character. 33. Nick's family are financially well-off, true or false? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 34. Surpassing the ordinary; exceptional A) Supercilious. B) Transcendent. C) Sumptuous. D) Ambiguously. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transcendent. 35. In their last meeting, Jordan tells Nick that she had trusted him, but turns out that he's: A) Nothing but a cheapskate. B) The worst man she's ever met. C) Just as careless as she is. D) Too cold and unfeeling to ever experience love. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Just as careless as she is. 36. Where do the three of them go? A) Tom's favorite restaurant. B) Nick's office. C) The dealer where Tom bought his last car. D) The apartment Tom rents and always takes hismistress to. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The apartment Tom rents and always takes hismistress to. 37. What is the meaning of 'evasions'? A) Acts of avoiding something. B) Put on a false appearance; pretended. C) Listlessly; indifferently. D) Touching, especially along a line or border. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acts of avoiding something. 38. After three seasons in a row of participating in The Bachelor t.v. show, Alex became ..... , losing all sense of reality and honest relationships. A) Affront. B) Cordial. C) Malevolence. D) Rancor. E) Deranged. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Deranged. 39. Which character best fits this description:Went to college with Nick A) Catherine. B) Tom. C) Daisy. D) Jordan. E) Myrtle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tom. 40. What does Nick see Gatsby reaching towards on his dock? A) The light on the water. B) The moon. C) A photograph on Daisy. D) The green light across the harbor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The green light across the harbor. 41. Which word best described Tom? A) Weak. B) Arrogant. C) Clumsy. D) Humble. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arrogant. 42. What kind of people come to Gatsby's parties? A) The newly rich, famous, and their friends. B) Only the residents of West Egg. C) Scholars and intellectuals from area universities. D) Mostly Gatsby's business associates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The newly rich, famous, and their friends. 43. What does Gatsby almost break during the first nervous moments of being reunited with Daisy? A) The mantlepiece clock. B) Nick's china tea cup. C) The arm of the chair. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The mantlepiece clock. 44. T or F:After reuniting Gatsby and Daisy, Nick fears Gatsby has built his expectations to high that the reality of the two being together may not live up to Gatsby's imagination. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 45. My cousin stood up, yawning, and ..... toward the door. A) Permeated. B) Sauntered. C) Implored. D) Ravaged. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sauntered. 46. Noun:the act of commuting, as to and from a place of work A) Precipitate(ly). B) Dilatory. C) Harrowing. D) Commutation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Commutation. 47. We find out that Tom has, "some woman in New York." What unflattering feature of Jordan Baker's personality is revealed in this scene? A) She is gossip queen and seems to take a small amount of pleasure in Daisy's pain in this scene. B) She is a liar and doesn't feel bad about lies. C) Jordan is flirty with too many men and that makes Nick really mad. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She is gossip queen and seems to take a small amount of pleasure in Daisy's pain in this scene. 48. Klipspringer's excuse for not coming to Gatsby's funeral was because he had to: A) Participate in a marathon. B) Go on a business trip. C) Attend a picnic. D) Attend his father's funeral. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Attend a picnic. 49. "What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon, and the day after that, and the next thirty years?" A) Jordan. B) Pammy's nurse. C) Daisy. D) Myrtle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Daisy. 50. What does Nick most notice about Gatsby when he first meets him? A) His ring. B) His friendliness. C) His greed. D) His smile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His smile. 51. What is the setting of Chapter 1? A) West Egg and East Egg. B) West Egg and New York City. C) East Egg and New York City. D) Midwest and New York City. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) West Egg and East Egg. 52. Consisting of parts or people that are all the same A) Notoriety. B) Apathetic. C) Poignant. D) Homogeneity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Homogeneity. 53. Define:contiguous"The only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick sitting on the edge of the waste land, a sort of compact Main Street ministering to it, and contiguous to absolutely nothing." A) In a way that is pleasing to the senses. B) The feeling that someone or something is unworthy of respect. C) To place between haughtily. D) The quality of being lively, strong, and full of energy. E) Touching along a boundary or at a point. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Touching along a boundary or at a point. 54. Chapter two ends with Nick where? A) Home. B) Tom and Daisy's. C) Jordan Baker's. D) Train station. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Train station. 55. Jay Gatsby's real name is A) Ewing Rock Jumper. B) Jake Harris. C) James Gatz. D) Wolfsheim. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) James Gatz. 56. After Nick hears the story of Daisy and Gatsby's past from Jordan, why is Gatsby nervous when he meets Nick outside his house? A) He is eager for Nick to arrange a meeting with Daisy and anxious to know if he will do it. B) He is waiting for a "shipment" and wants to talk to Nick about a possible job offer. C) He is worried that he has offended Nick by encroaching on Nick's date with Jordan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He is eager for Nick to arrange a meeting with Daisy and anxious to know if he will do it. 57. What is Jay Gatsby's main motivation? A) To become wealthy and powerful. B) To seek revenge on Tom Buchanan. C) To prove his worth to society. D) To win back Daisy Buchanan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To win back Daisy Buchanan. 58. Which color is associated with Daisy, Jordan, and the Buchanan house? A) Yellow. B) Red. C) White. D) Green. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) White. 59. TRUE OR FALSE:Jordan Baker is one of the few honest people in the story. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) NEITHER TRUE or FALSE. D) BOTH TRUE or FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 60. What did Catherine tell the coroner about her sister's affair? A) It was with Gatsby rather than Tom. B) She hadn't had an affair. C) The affair was over at the time of the accident. D) It had recently started. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She hadn't had an affair. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesThe Great Gatsby Quiz 1The Great Gatsby Quiz 2The Great Gatsby Quiz 3The Great Gatsby Quiz 4The Great Gatsby Quiz 5The Great Gatsby Quiz 6The Great Gatsby Quiz 7The Great Gatsby Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books