This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Novels > The Great Gatsby – Quiz 39 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Great Gatsby Quiz 39 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Define:sedative A) In a way that indicates or shows disbelief; difficult to believe. B) To speak without preparation; to improvise. C) Tending to calm or soothe. D) Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others. E) Crucial; absolutely necessary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tending to calm or soothe. 2. What is a synonym for devoid? A) Complete. B) Full. C) Lacking. D) Lackluster. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lacking. 3. Dishonesty, deception A) Disapprove. B) Deceit. C) Astonished. D) Untidy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deceit. 4. Sociable; jovial or festive A) Provincial. B) Pastoral. C) Vacuous. D) Convivial. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Convivial. 5. Which is NOT true about Gatsby's car? A) It's cream colored. B) It's steering wheel is on the other side. C) It was quite large. D) It had a windshield. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It's steering wheel is on the other side. 6. 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. 7. Identify the word which means:cheerful and friendly A) Retracted. B) Impetuously. C) Convivial. D) Subterfuge. E) Ascertain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Convivial. 8. 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. 9. Identify the word which means:to find out; learn with certainty. A) Ascertain. B) Convivial. C) Retracted. D) Impetuously. E) Subterfuge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ascertain. 10. Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; cocky A) Vehemently. B) Permeate. C) Supercilious. D) Ambiguously. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Supercilious. 11. How many steps are there to identify a theme? A) 5. B) 3. C) 2. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4. 12. Equal in size or proportion A) Fortuitously. B) Provincial. C) Commensurate. D) Expostulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commensurate. 13. After three hours of ..... rain, the game was abandoned. A) Truculent. B) Forlorn. C) Intermittent. D) Elude. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intermittent. 14. What word means able to be seen or noticed? A) Jovial. B) Perceptible. C) Disdain. D) Resolve. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Perceptible. 15. With excessive greed and hunger A) Formidable. B) Presumptuous. C) Ravenously. D) Complacent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ravenously. 16. What year does the story start? A) 1920. B) 1921. C) 1922. D) 1923. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1922. 17. Where is Gatsby originally from? A) Road cancer. B) North Dakota. C) Lake Superior. D) Boston. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) North Dakota. 18. What did Tom suspect about Gatsby? A) He was a bootlegger. B) He was a spy. C) He was a magician. D) He was a crook. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was a bootlegger. 19. Who killed Jay Gatsby? A) Meyer Wolfsheim. B) Nick Carraway. C) Tom Buchanan. D) George Wilson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) George Wilson. 20. Daisy seems especially impressed by Gatsby's shirts. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. ← 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