This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > The Great Gatsby – Quiz 40 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Great Gatsby Quiz 40 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Define:explicable A) Continuing without stopping. B) Incapable of being depleted/exhausted; tireless. C) Possible to explain; explainable. D) Vigorous in demands or complaint. E) Continuing without stopping. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Possible to explain; explainable. 2. Whose eyes do the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg belong to? A) A real doctor. B) An advertisement for an oculist. C) A passing traveler. D) A local resident. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An advertisement for an oculist. 3. What are Daisy and Tom doing at the end of chapter 7? A) They are talking and conspiring at the dinner table. B) They are arguing after the events of the Plaza Hotel showdown. C) They flee town after at the car accident. D) They attend an East Egg party and act as if nothing happened. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are talking and conspiring at the dinner table. 4. What happens to "Owl Eyes" ' as he is leaving Gatsby's party? A) His friend crashes their car and he doesn't know what's happened. B) Helps Nick get home. C) Passes out in the library. D) Saves Nick from getting beat up by drunks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His friend crashes their car and he doesn't know what's happened. 5. Very unusual; remarkable A) Clever. B) Scornful. C) Astonished. D) Extraordinary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extraordinary. 6. What is the meaning of "Commensurate" ? A) Corresponding in size or degree. B) Without a clearly defined shape or form. C) Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion. D) Eager or quick to argue or fight. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Corresponding in size or degree. 7. Who narrates the novel? A) Daisy Buchanan. B) Jay Gatsby. C) Nick Carraway. D) We don't know. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nick Carraway. 8. Within Tom and Myrtle's apartment was a copy of famous inkblot image. Nick described that it sometimes looked like a "hen sitting on a blurred rock;" then "resolved itself into a bonnet, and the countenance of a stout lady" (Fitzgerald 29). Such a ..... picture gained popularity in the 1920s when Sigmund Freud's psychological theories were becoming accepted. A) Obstinate. B) Nebulous. C) Punctilious. D) Gaudy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nebulous. 9. What does Tom have in New York? A) A law firm. B) A car dealership. C) A mistress. D) Polo ponies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A mistress. 10. After numerous calls and pleading with Wolfsheim to come to Gatsby's funeral, a ..... Nick realizes that "no one" will come. His hope at "finding someone" for Gatsby is all in vain. A) Ceasless. B) Superfluous. C) Forlorn. D) Laden. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Forlorn. 11. What is Daisy Buchanan's relationship to Nick Carraway? A) Cousin. B) Neighbor. C) Friend. D) Sister. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cousin. 12. Punctilious A) Careful/exacting. B) Rushing/half-hazard. C) Half planned. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Careful/exacting. 13. Occurring occasionally or at regular or irregular intervals; periodic A) Insidious. B) Portentous. C) Intermittent. D) Turgid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intermittent. 14. According to Gatsby, Meyer Wolfsheim is ..... A) A Banker. B) A Gambler. C) A Dentist. D) An Athlete. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A Gambler. 15. Where does Gatsby live? A) West Egg. B) East Egg. C) In New York City. D) In the Midwest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) West Egg. 16. Like the previous one, the New York room scene in Chapter 8 contains a ..... when Tom laughs at Gatsby and tells Gatsby, "You're crazy!" (Fitzgerald 131). ' A) Rancor. B) Tumult. C) Pasquinade. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tumult. 17. What rumor does Catherine repeat about Gatsby? A) He delivers sandwiches to parties. B) He is related to Kaiser Wilhelm. C) He has a woman in New York. D) He doesn't believe in divorce. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He is related to Kaiser Wilhelm. 18. Did F. Scot Fitzgerald go into the military ..... ? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 19. Identify who said the quote: "Civilization's going to pieces ..... I've gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read 'The Rise of the Coloured Empire' by this man Goddard? ..... The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be ..... will be utterly submerged." A) Jordan Baker. B) Tom Buchanan. C) Nick Carraway. D) Daisy Buchanan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tom Buchanan. 20. Gatsby made his fortune in A) The garment industry. B) Real estate. C) Steel. D) Organized crime and bootlegging. 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