Name: _______________
The Great Gatsby Exam (100 Points)
A. Matching (1 Point each) Match the following characters with the correct descriptions. 1. Ni Nick Carraway 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
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Jay Gatsby ____________ Dan Cody ____________ Jordan Baker ____________ Me M eyer Wolfshiem ____________ Tom Buchanan ____________ Ge George Wilson ____________
b. c. d. e. f. g.
8. Myrtle Wilson 9. Klipspringer 10. He Henry C. Gatz
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h. i. j.
“one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven” His cufflinks are made of human molars. The victim of a hit-and-run accident Daisy’s second cousin once removed He wants to buy Tom Buchanan’s car. “She was incurably dishonest.” “a product of the Nevada silver fields, of the Yukon, of every rush for metal since seventyfive.” Dan Cody’s protégé He owns a yellow Rolls Royce The “boarder” in Gatsby’s mansion
B. Matching (1 Point each) Match the following quotations with the correct correct characters. You may use the same character more than once. 11. “Her voice is full of money.”
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12. “God knows what you’ve you’ve been doing, everything everything you’ve you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!”
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13. “No amount of fire or freshness freshness can challenge challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” 14. “He ran over over Myrtle Myrtle like you’d you’d run run over a dog and never never even stopped his car.” 15. “Everyone suspects suspects himself himself of at least one of the cardinal cardinal virtues, and this is mine: mine: I am one of the few honest people people that I have ever known.” 16. “I’d to just just get one of those pink pink clouds and and put you in it and and push you around.”
a. Nick Carraway b. Daisy Buchanan
c. Tom Buchanan _____ d. Jay Gatsby _____
e. George Wilson
_____ f. Jordan Baker _____
17. “I hate careless people. Th That’s why I like you.”
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18. “It’s up to us who are the dominant race race to watch watch out or these these other races will have control of things.”
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19. “Let us learn to show show our friendship friendship for a man when when he is alive alive and not after he is dead. . . After that my own rule is to let everything alone.”
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20. “I did love him once – but I loved you too.”
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g. Me Meyer Wolfshiem
Name: _______________
C. Multiple Choice (1 point each) 21. Which of the following events does not occur during the twenties?
a. b. c. d.
Women receive the right to vote Prohibition is enforced World War I ends Duke Ellington performs for the Cotton Club
22. Which of the following statements demonstrates the thought process that the Harlem Renaissance opposes? a. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” b. “He came down with a hundred people in four private cars and hired the whole floor of the Seelbach Hotel, and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.” c. “Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions and next they’ll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.” d. “God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me but you can’t fool God!” e. All of the above 23. In which of the following lines from e.e. cumming’s “Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr.
Vinal,” does the author not use a commercial slogan to criticize commerce’s effect on art and patriotism in the U.S.? a. “Art is O World O Life” b. “And there’s a/ hun-dred-mil-lion-oth-ers, like/ all of you” c. “comes out like a ribbon lies flat on the brush” d. “from every B.V.D./ let freedom ring” 24. Which of the following symbols from The Great Gatsby best reflects the central
theme of e.e. cummings’ “Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal?” a. Nick’s clock c. The eye’s of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg b. Gatsby’s yellow car d. The green light 25. Where do Myrtle and George Wilson live? a. West Egg c. Valley of Ashes b. East Egg d. New York City 26. Where does Jay Gatsby live? a. West Egg b. East Egg
c. Valley of Ashes d. New York City
27. Where do Tom and Daisy Buchanan live? a. West Egg c. Valley of Ashes b. East Egg d. New York City 28. Where does Nick Caraway live? a. West Egg b. East Egg
c. Valley of Ashes d. New York City
Name: _______________ 29. Which of the following characters can be considered “old money?” a. Daisy Buchanan c. Jay Gatsby b. Dan Cody d. George Wilson 30. Which of the following characters is a member of the working class? a. Daisy Buchanan c. Jay Gatsby b. Dan Cody d. George Wilson 31. With whom does Myrtle Wilson have an affair? a. Nick Carraway c. Tom Buchanan b. Jay Gatsby d. Meyer Wolfsheim 32. With whom does Daisy Buchanan have an affair? a. Nick Carraway c. George Wilson b. Jay Gatsby d. Meyer Wolfsheim 33. Which of the following colors is not associated with Daisy Buchanan?
a. Yellow b. White
c. Blue d. Green
34. Who does Nick date? a. Jordan Baker b. Ella Kaye
c. Myrtle Wilson d. Daisy Buchanan
35. Which of the following statements best describes Nick Carraway’s role as the
narrator? a. b. c. d.
As readers, we know the thoughts of every character. As readers, we can trust Nick completely. As readers, we only know what Nick tells us. None of the above.
36. What gift does Tom buy for his mistress in chapter 2? a. a pearl necklace c. golf clubs b. a dress d. a puppy 37. What does Gatsby always call Nick? a. Pal b. Buddy
c. Old sport d. Old man
38. From where does Gatsby claim to recognize Nick? a. He recognizes him from the war. b. He knew him in college. c. Daisy told him about Nick. d. Meyer Wolfshiem told him about Nick. 39. Where is the billboard of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg? a. West Egg c. Valley of Ashes b. East Egg d. New York City
Name: _______________ 40. Which of the following describes Dr. T.J. Eckleburg? a. Dr. T.J. Eckleburg sees everything. b. Dr. T.J. Eckleburg represents commercialism and materialism. c. Dr. T.J. Eckleberg has blue eyes and yellow spectacles. d. George and Myrtle Wilson live across from Dr. T.J. Eckleburg. e. All of the above. 41. Which of the following statements describes the green light across from Jay Gatsby’s mansion? a. The green light symbolized Gatsby’s goal in life. b. The green light was on the property of Daisy Buchanan’s mansion. c. The green light represented Gatsby’s jealousy of Tom Buchanan. d. All of the above. e. None of the above. 42. In chapter 4 how does Gatsby explain his wealth? a. He inherited it from his family. b. He won it in the war. c. He earned it through bootlegging. d. He earned it by playing the stock market. 43. How does Jay Gatsby really earn his money? a. He inherits the money from his parents. b. He earns most of his money from the war. c. He earns most of his money through the stock market. d. He owes his wealth to bootlegging and gambling. 44. Which of the following statements best describes Meyer Wolfsheim?
a. He represents the seedy side of New York City with which Gatsby is connected. b. He represents the growing popularity of the stock market. Both he and Nick sell and trade bonds. c. He is a musician who represents the growing influence of jazz music in New York City. d. He is a politician in New York. Wolfsheim is living proof that the New York political system is corrupt. 45. Where was Daisy Buchanan originally from? a. Chicago c. California b. Louisville d. North Dakota
Name: _______________ 46. In chapter 5 when Gatsby reunites with Daisy, Fitzgerald writes, “His [Gatsby’s]
head leaned back so far that it rested against the face of a defunct [broken] mantelpiece clock and from this position his distraught eyes stared d own at Daisy who was sitting frightened but graceful on the edge of a stiff chair.” Which of the following best reflects this description of Jay Gatsby? a. “’Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!’” b. “I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years.” c. “Well, they say he’s a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm’s. That’s where all his money comes from.” d. “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” 47. Which of the following statements best explains the significance of Gatsby’s
shirts in chapter 5? a. By throwing his shirts around the room, Gatsby rejects his wealth in front of Daisy. b. By throwing his shirts around the room, he proves that he has more money than Nick. c. When Daisy sees the shirts, she suddenly realizes that she should not have given up on Gatsby when he was poor. d. None of the above. 48. Where was Gatsby originally from? a. Chicago b. Louisville
c. California d. North Dakota
49. What did Gatsby’s father do for a living? a. He was a farmer. b. He was a teacher.
c. He was a stockbroker. d. He was a bootlegger.
50. Who cheats Gatsby out of his inheritance from Dan Cody? a. Myrtle Wilson c. Tom Buchanan b. Ella Kaye d. Daisy Buchanan 51. Why does Tom go to Gatsby’s party in chapter 6? a. He wants to watch Daisy. c. He wants to make business connections. b. He just wants to have fun. d. He wants to play polo. 52. In chapter 7, why does Gatsby fire all of his almost all of his servants? a. He did not fire them; they quit because they were tired of cleaning up after all of his parties. b. He did not want them to gossip. c. They were stealing from him. d. He could no longer afford them.
Name: _______________ 53. Which of the following statements best describes the Buchanan’s daughter?
a. Tom Buchanan is incredibly devoted to her. b. She resembles her mother. Likewise, she will probably become like her mother. c. Tom and Daisy hardly ever mention her. They seem to be more concerned with material goods. d. None of the above. 54. Who kills Jay Gatsby? a. Nick Carraway b. George Wilson
c. Tom Buchanan d. Meyer Wolfsheim
55. Which of the following characters shows up at Gatsby’s funeral? a. The man with the “owl eyes” c. Dan Cody b. Meyer Wolfsheim d. Klipspringer 56. By the end of the main narrative, how old is Nick? a. 25 c. 33 b. 30
d. 35
57. Which of the following statements concerning the nouveau riche in The Great
Gatsby is true? a. George and Myrtle Wilson are both members of the nouveau riche. b. East Egg consists mostly of members of the nouveau riche. c. Stereotypically, members of the nouveau riche are reserved. They tend to keep to themselves. d. It was not unusual for a member of the nouveau riche in The Great Gatsby to be involved in bootlegging. 58. Which of the following statements best characterizes the stereotype of the
nouveau riche? a. “It’s up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.” b. “Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water.” c. “His [Tom Buchanan’s] family were enormously wealthy – even in college his freedom with money was a matter of reproach.” d. “On weekends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight.” 59. Which of the following quotations best exemplifies the theme of Existentialism?
a. “With Jordan’s slender golden arm resting in mine we descended the steps and sauntered about the garden.” b. “He came down with a hundred people in four private cars and hired the whole floor of the Seelbach Hotel, and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.” c. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
Name: _______________ d. “God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me but you can’t fool God!” 60. Which of the following quotations best exemplifies the theme of materialism? a. “With Jordan’s slender golden arm resting in mine we descended the steps and sauntered about the garden.” b. “He came down with a hundred people in four private cars and hired the whole floor of the Seelbach Hotel, and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.” c. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” d. “God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me but you can’t fool God!”
Name: _______________ D. Short Answer (10 points each) Use a paragraph to respond to two of the three questions. If you answer all three, then I will grade the first two. Make sure that you support each answer with at least three specific examples. I am mostly interested in how you support your ideas. 1.
How is The Great Gatsby a criticism of old money and the nouveau riche? What are stereotypical characteristics of each group in the novel?
2.
Explain the role of the 18th Amendment in The Great Gatsby. Use specific examples to support your ideas.
3.
How does F. Scott Fitzgerald criticize the American Dream in The Great Gatsby? Use specific examples to support your ideas.
Name: _______________
E. Bonus (1 point each) When did Fitzgerald publish The Great Gatsby?
What was the name of Fitzgerald’s wife?
Specifically, what was e.e. cumming’s occupation during World War I?
F. Essay Question (20 points) In 1920 Congress ratified the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote. This gave rise to the notion of the “liberated woman” and forced men to reevaluate the role of women in American society. Likewise, in The Great Gatsby we see different views of women. Pick one of the male characters from the novel and explore his perception of the role of women in society. Then choose one of the female characters. How does she perceive the role of women? For this essay you should have at least four paragraphs. The first paragraph should involve your introduction where you develop your thesis statement. Your next two paragraphs should be your body paragraphs where you describe each character’s perception of women. I am looking specifically for examples to support your argument. Your last paragraph should be your conclusion. In particular, take the time to compare and contrast the ideas of the two characters you choose. Do not feel like you need to restrict yourself to just four paragraphs. If another one is needed to prove your argument more effectively, then please go ahead and do so. Notice that I will take off a point for every time I see a contraction or an abbreviation.
