This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Novels > The Great Gatsby – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Great Gatsby Quiz 17 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An inhabitant, resident; one who frequents a place A) Notoriety. B) Pastoral. C) Oculist. D) Denizen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Denizen. 2. In chapter one, Fitzgerald explains that Daisy and Jordan had been lying around on the couch all day doing nothing. When they finally get up for dinner, he says that they move languidly. What does that mean? A) (adj) characterized by extreme care and great effort. B) (adj) unwilling or unable to believe something; skeptical. C) (v.) to crouch or shrink away from in fear or shame. D) (adj) slow, sluggish, listless, weak. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) (adj) slow, sluggish, listless, weak. 3. Please make sure the water does not ..... through the material. A) Fluctuate. B) Permeate. C) Elicit. D) Valor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Permeate. 4. As a pre-wedding gift, Tom gives Daisy what piece of jewelry? A) A diamond ring. B) A pearl necklace. C) An emerald bracelet. D) Ruby earrings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A pearl necklace. 5. Who is the Narrator of The Great Gatsby? A) Gatsby. B) Nick Carraway. C) Tom Bucchanan. D) The Narrator is omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nick Carraway. 6. What feeling does Nick describe towards Gatsby at the beginning of Chapter 4? A) Happiness. B) Anger. C) Disappointment. D) Sadness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Disappointment. 7. Tom Buchanan was "one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterwards savors of anticlimax." What does this passage mean? A) Tom was not excellent at anything and his life is a let-down. B) Tom was always looked at as perfect at many things throughout his entire life. C) Tom excelled so greatly in sports at a young age that everything afterwards seems like a let-down. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tom excelled so greatly in sports at a young age that everything afterwards seems like a let-down. 8. Who are George and Myrtle Wilson? A) Myrtle is Tom's cousin. George is her son. B) George is Tom's business partner. Myrtle is George's secretary. C) Myrtle is Tom's mistress. George is Myrtle's husband. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Myrtle is Tom's mistress. George is Myrtle's husband. 9. Define:sensuously"She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can." A) Touching along a boundary or at a point. B) To place between haughtily. C) The quality of being lively, strong, and full of energy. D) The feeling that someone or something is unworthy of respect. E) In a way that is pleasing to the senses. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) In a way that is pleasing to the senses. 10. Who is Catherine? A) Tom's mistress. B) Daisy's best friend. C) The narrator's girlfriend. D) Myrtle's sister. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Myrtle's sister. 11. What did Tom gift Daisy? A) A diamond ring. B) A string of pearls. C) Ruby earrings. D) A silk dress. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A string of pearls. 12. Who is Tom's mistress? A) Catherine. B) Myrtle. C) Daisy. D) Lula. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Myrtle. 13. Based on Fitzgerald's description that on Mondays "eight servants [and] an extra gardener toiled all day with mops and scrubbing brushes and hammers ..... reparing the ..... of the night before, " it is clear that Gatsby's guests had little respect for his property. A) Elicit. B) Rendering. C) Ravages. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ravages. 14. Where does the reunion between Gatsby and Daisy take place? A) Gatsby's house. B) Nick's house. C) The Plaza hotel. D) New York. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nick's house. 15. What theme in "The Great Gatsby" is represented by the green light at the end of Daisy's dock? A) The American dream. B) Love and desire. C) Wealth and class. D) The passage of time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Love and desire. 16. Choose the correct word to match the definition.(adj) acting or done quickly and without thought or care A) Impetuous. B) Vacuous. C) Innumerable. D) Strident. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Impetuous. 17. Where did the narrator initially encounter Tom Buchanan's mistress? A) At a social gathering. B) During a train stop. C) Following a car accident. D) Through a deliberate arrangement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) During a train stop. 18. What profession does Nick pursue in New York? A) Bootlegging. B) A job on Wall Street. C) Writing. D) Painting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A job on Wall Street. 19. During dinner Tom gets a phone call from his mechanic. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 20. How does Gatsby behave when he is finally reunited with Daisy in Chapter 5? A) He is calm and collected. B) He is nervous and awkward. C) He is indifferent and distant. D) He is angry and confrontational. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He is nervous and awkward. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres 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 8The Great Gatsby Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books