This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Novels > The Great Gatsby – Quiz 49 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Great Gatsby Quiz 49 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the word which means:deceit used in order to achieve one's goal. A) Retracted. B) Ascertain. C) Impetuously. D) Convivial. E) Subterfuge. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Subterfuge. 2. With the exception of Nick, Gatsby's father, and the minister, no one attends Gatsby's burial. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 3. What is ironic about this statement: "I told that boy about the ice." Myrtle raised her eyebrows in despair at the shiftlessness of the lower orders. "These people! You have to keep after them all the time." A) Myrtle is asking for ice but she doesn't even like ice. B) Tom was the one who brought the ice. C) Myrtle is criticizing working class people, but she is one herself. D) Tom is working class too. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Myrtle is criticizing working class people, but she is one herself. 4. What did Gatsby and Nick Carraway have in common? A) They both served in the war. B) They both enjoyed fast cars. C) They were both in the bonds business. D) They lived next door to one another. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They both served in the war. 5. Identify Catherine and Mr. and Mrs. McKee. A) Catherine is Nick's secretary. Mrs. McKee is her sister, and Mr. McKee is her brother-in-law. B) Catherine is Myrtle's sister. The McKees live downstairs in the apartmentcomplex. C) Catherine is Tom's cousin. The McKees are the apartment managers. D) Catherine is Mrs. McKee's best friend. The McKees are old neighbors of Myrtle's. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Catherine is Myrtle's sister. The McKees live downstairs in the apartmentcomplex. 6. Who is driving the car that strikes Myrtle Wilson, leading to her death? A) Gatsby. B) Tom. C) Daisy. D) Nick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Daisy. 7. The butler pulls Gatsby away from his guests to attend to what? A) Phone calls from various cities. B) Guests in other areas of the party. C) A problem in the kitchen with the cooking staff. D) A car crash in front of Gatsby's house. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phone calls from various cities. 8. What does is show us about Gatsby that people are spreading and discussing outlandish rumors? A) Everyone knows him in a different way. B) He's a liar and spreads the rumors himself. C) No one knows who he is, or where he's from. D) They don't approve of him. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) No one knows who he is, or where he's from. 9. Why did Daisy marry Tom? A) Tom threatened Daisy into marriage by hitting her. B) Gatsby went off to war and Tom had money and status. C) They had a daughter and she did not want her reputation to be ruined. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gatsby went off to war and Tom had money and status. 10. How would you define something that is 'frivolous'? A) Serious and important. B) Lacking purpose or value. C) Difficult to understand. D) Deep and meaningful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lacking purpose or value. 11. Nick ends up clinging to which person at the party? A) Daisy. B) Jordan. C) Tom. D) Gatsby. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jordan. 12. Very generous, kind, or forgiving A) Magnanimous. B) Garrulous. C) Complacent. D) Commensurate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Magnanimous. 13. Which character breaks the news to Nick that Tom is having an affair? A) Daisy. B) Jordan. C) Tom. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jordan. 14. Why does Gatsby hold huge parties on the weekends? A) So that he will not have to drink alone. B) In the hope that Daisy will show up one night. C) To entertain his business associates. D) As a cover for his bootlegging operations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In the hope that Daisy will show up one night. 15. Very unhappily A) Carelessly. B) Coldly. C) Sharply. D) Miserably. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Miserably. 16. Where do Tom, Myrtle and Nick go in New York? A) To Tom's business, which he shares with Tom. B) To Myrtle's house, where she spent her childhood. C) To the apartment where Tom and Myrtle are having an affair. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To the apartment where Tom and Myrtle are having an affair. 17. Why did Gatsby invent a new identity for himself A) In order to become rich and seem like he was always rich. B) To cover up for his war crimes. C) To attract women. D) To get Daisy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To get Daisy. 18. What does Daisy admit about whom she loves? A) She never loved Tom. B) She never loved Gatsby. C) She never loved either man. D) She loves them both. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She loves them both. 19. Why does Tom let Gatsby and Daisy drive home together? A) He realizes he can't stand in the way of their love. B) He has cut the brakes in their car. C) He has decided that they are not actually having an affair. D) He realizes that Daisy is not going to leave him for Gatsby. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He realizes that Daisy is not going to leave him for Gatsby. 20. Who plays Tom Buchanan? A) Tom Hardy. B) Christian Bale. C) Joel Edgerton. D) Christopher Abbott. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Joel Edgerton. ← 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