The Great Gatsby Quiz 30 (20 MCQs)

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1. Jordan Baker is all of the following except:

Correct Answer: D) A woman's rights advocate.

2. What is the meaning of the word 'extemporize'?

Correct Answer: C) Improvise.

3. Which color used at Gatsby's party gave the connotation that it was rich, happy, and energetic?

Correct Answer: C) Yellow.

4. Valor is

Correct Answer: B) Courage when facing danger.

5. What is the definition of 'discreet'?

Correct Answer: D) Keeping something private or secret.

6. The lamp-light, bright on his boots and dull onthe autumn-leaf yellow of her hair

Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition.

7. In the novel, Gatsby has a constant ..... with a green light across the water from his mansion

Correct Answer: B) Fixation.

8. Which vocabulary term matches the following definition: "(n.) a feeling of triumphant elation or joy (from success or victory)"

Correct Answer: C) Exultation.

9. When does the novel take place, i.e., what year or time period?

Correct Answer: B) 1920s.

10. Which theme is emphasized through the characters' actions in Chapter 9?

Correct Answer: B) The consequences of living in the past.

11. What happens to Gatsby at the end of the story?

Correct Answer: C) George Wilson kills Gatsby then shoots himself.

12. Nick feels ..... after seeing Gatsby smile.

Correct Answer: A) Reassured.

13. What does "Presumptuous" mean?

Correct Answer: B) Failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate.

14. What is Tom Buchanan's occupation?

Correct Answer: A) Investor.

15. Why is Gatsby nervous when he meets Nick outside his house?

Correct Answer: A) He is eager for Nick to arrange a meeting with Daisy and anxious to know if he will do it.

16. Nick is the only party goer to .....

Correct Answer: A) Receive an invitation.

17. Being in the backseat of the car with her grandparents was an ..... experience for the teenage girl.

Correct Answer: A) Interminable.

18. Sporadic means

Correct Answer: A) Recurring in scattered or unpredictable instances.

19. (of a man) having or showing characteristics regarded as typical of a woman; unmanly

Correct Answer: A) Effeminate.

20. True or False?:Nick didn't invite Jordan to the funeral.

Correct Answer: A) True.