A STEP BEYOND
TESTS AND ANSWERS
TEST 1
_____ 1. Nick Carraway was born -
A. in the Northeast
B. in the Midwest
C. in the South
_____ 2. The character who first appears "in riding clothes... standing with his legs apart on the front porch" is -
A. Gatsby
B. Tom Buchanan
C. George Wilson
_____ 3. The pretentious expression, "I'm p-paralyzed with happiness," is spoken by -
A. Jordan Baker
B. Daisy Buchanan
C. Gatsby
_____ 4. James Gatz is -
A. Daisy's cousin
B. Gatsby's piano player
C. Gatsby's real name
_____ 5. Nick Carraway recalls a story which implied that Jordan Baker once -
A. betrayed a close friend
B. stole some money
C. cheated at golf
_____ 6. Gatsby shows a police officer -
A. a fifty dollar bill
B. a Christmas card from the police commissioner
C. the damage done to the front fender of his car
_____ 7. The character
who hangs up the phone in Nick's ear "with a sharp click" is -
A. Gatsby
B. Tom Buchanan
C. Jordan Baker
_____ 8.
When Nick tells Gatsby, "You can't repeat the past," Gatsby replies -
A. "Of course you can."
B. "After all I've done? That's
nonsense."
C. "I'd never thought of that before, Old Sport."
_____ 9. Doctor T. J. Eckleburg becomes a symbol of -
A. Gatsby's
"romantic readiness"
B. Nick's friendship for Gatsby
C. the
lack of morals prevalent in the East
_____ 10. Myrtle Wilson's nose is broken by -
A. Gatsby
B. Tom Buchanan
C. George Wilson
11. Is Gatsby a "hero?" Discuss. -
12. Describe Fitzgerald's
attitude toward money in The Great Gatsby. -
13. Discuss Nick Carraway as Narrator
and Character. -
14. Analyze Fitzgerald's use of setting as "moral
geography." -
15. Select one of the major symbols of the novel and show how
Fitzgerald uses it.
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