The Great Gatsby
English 11
Final Test
C. Mahoney
Directions: Answer all of the following questions, placing the answers on the scantron provided.
I. Matching: match the following items with their locations.
1. Tom & Myrtle’s apartment
2. James Gatz’s home state
3. Buchanan’s house
4. Wilson’s garage
5. Gatsby’s house
A. West Egg
B. The Valley of Ashes
C. New York City
D. North Dakota
E. East Egg
II. Character Identification: match the characters with his description
6. Gatsby’s real name
7. Man Gatsby worked for as a steward and “jailor”
8. The man who shot Gatsby
9. Wilson’s neighbor/comforter
10. Golf pro & cheater
A. George Wilson
B. Michaelis
C. Dan Cody
D. James Gatz
E. Jordan Baker
11. Daisy & Tom’s daughter
12. Refuses to “get mixed up in it” by coming to funeral
13. Killed by Gatsby’s car
14. Swears, at the inquest, her sister was not having an affair
15. Only friend at funeral
A. Catherine
B. Pammy
C. Myrtle Wilson
D. Owl Eyes
E. Meyer Wolfsheim
III. True and False: PLEASE use A for true and B for false.
16. Gatsby came from a wealthy Midwestern family
17. Daisy and Jordan grew up together in Louisville
18. Gatsby told Nick he moved around Europe in an attempt to forget something very sad.
19. Daisy received a letter from Gatsby the day before her wedding.
20. After the shooting, when Nick meets Tom, he refuses to shake hands with him.
21. Tom knows Daisy was driving the car that killed Myrtle.
22. Daisy cries about all Gatsby’s shirts because the needlework is so fine.
23. Wolfsheim made the arrangements for Gatsby’s funeral.
24. Gatsby believes it is possible to change the past.
25. Tom breaks Myrtle’s nose because she is flirting with Nick.
IV. Multiple Choice: Choose the letter of the best answer.
26. The setting of the novel is
A. New York, Summer 1922 B. New York, Summer 1923
C. New Jersey, Spring 1920 D. None of the above
27. West Egg was …. than East Egg
A. more fashionable B. less fashionable
28. The Green Light at the end of Daisy’s dock is symbolic of
A. love
B. hate
C. hope
D. despair
29. “…one of the men who reach such an acute limited excellence at 21 the everything afterward savors of
anticlimax.” refers to
A. Gatsby
B. Nick
C. Tom
D. George
30. “…he’d brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest.” refers to
A. Gatsby
B. Nick
C. Tom
D. George
31. The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckelburg were
A. symbolic of God
B. an oculist’s advertisement
C. a joke
D. both A & B
32. The day Nick spent at Myrtle and Tom’s apartment in NYC was one of the few times he was
A. Intoxicated
B. Angry
C. Impressed by Tom’s money
D. Jealous
33. Tom tells Myrtle that he can’t marry her because
A. he doesn’t love her
B. his wife is Catholic
C. she is lower class
D. he’ll lose his money
34. The rumors about Gatsby’s background included
A. being related to Kaiser Wilhelm
C. being a murderer
B. being an alcoholic
D. both A & C
35. Jordan’s near accident, caused by being careless, might be considered…
A. plot
B. foreshadowing
C. oxymoron
D. metaphor
36. Gatsby’s favorite expression is
A. Cheers
B. Old Sport
C. Come on Down
D. Where’s the Party?
37. Gatsby changed his name when he climbed aboard the yacht of
A. George Wilson
B. his father
C. Meyer Wolfsheim
D. Dan Cody
38. “Can’t repeat the past?... Why of course you can” is said by
A. Daisy
B. Jordan
C. Gatsby
D. Nick
39. “Her voice is full of money” refers to
A. Myrtle
B. Jordan
D. Daisy
C. Mrs. McKee
40. When Myrtle saw Jordan with Tom she assumed Jordan was
A. Daisy, his wife
B. Tom’s sister
C. another of Tom’s lovers
D. a friend
41. When Daisy was coming to tea, Gatsby’s nervousness was evident in his
A. leaving to circle the house when Daisy arrived B. drinking a great deal of wine
C. stuttering when he speaks to Daisy
D. knocking over the flowers he sent.
42. When Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, Nick and Jordan take a suite at the Plaza hotel, they can hear that the event
taking place in the room below them was
A. a 50th birthday party
B. a Sweet Sixteen Party
C. a wedding
D. a funeral reception
43. George realized that Myrtle had a secret life when
A. he found a fancy dog leash
B. her nose was broken
C. he found an expensive dress
D. Tom kept refusing to sell him the car
44. Michaelis spends the night in the garage comforting George Wilson because
A. they are distant cousins
B. they are close friends
C. George is a partial owner of the diner D. there’s no else for George to call
45. Daisy drove Gatsby’s car home from New York City because
A. she was drunk and insisted
B. she thought it would calm her
C. She was afraid Tom would follow them
D. she was angry at Gatsby
46. Gatsby’s father learned of his death from
A. Nick, who phoned with the news
C. Meyer Wofsheim, who sent a telegram
B. Chicago newspapers
D. New York newspapers sent by Daisy
47. As the novel ends, it becomes evident that the person who gave George Wilson Gatsby’s name and
address in the hours he “disappeared” was
A. Nick
B. Tom
C. Daisy
D. Michaelis
48. Nick’s final judgmental opinion of Tom and Daisy is that they’re
A. destructive
B. careless
C. selfish
D. All of these
49. Nick was distressed after Gatsby’s death by his “friends”
A. anguish over losing him
B. hysterical and dramatic weeping at the wake
C. complete indifference
D. all of these
50. Nick’s reference to returning to the Midwest at the end of the novel reminds the reader that the novel
is
A. an allegory
B. a fairy tale
C. a flashback
D. an extended metaphor