A STEP BEYOND
TESTS AND ANSWERS
TEST 2 _____ 1. The expression "and the
holocaust was complete" refers to -
A. Myrtle's death
B. George
Wilson's death
C. Gatsby's death
_____ 2. Nick left his home to come
to New York in an effort to -
A. make money
B. meet new people
C. locate Gatsby
_____ 3. The character who has "one of those
rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come
across four of five times in life" is -
A. Daisy Buchanan
B. Gatsby
C. Jordan Baker
_____ 4. The character who, according to Gatsby,
"fixed the world series" is -
A. Wolfsheim
B.
Klipspringer
C. Owl Eyes
_____ 5. Apparently, most of Gatsby's
money, has come from -
A. drug sales
B. bootlegging
C.
bond investments
_____ 6. When Myrtle Wilson is killed, the car that hit her was
driven by -
A. Gatsby
B. Daisy
C. Tom
_____ 7. "The promise of a decade of loneliness" is sensed by -
A. Nick
B. Gatsby
C. Dan Cody
_____ 8. The
most significant change in Daisy's life since before the war is that she now -
A. has a child
B. loves Gatsby
C. likes having money
_____ 9. "That ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through
the amorphous trees" is -
A. George Wilson
B. Gatsby
C. Tom Buchanan
_____ 10. A symbol of the human capacity for hope is
-
A. Gatsby's immense mansion
B. the green light at the end of Daisy's
dock
C. Owl Eyes
11. Compare and contrast The Great Gatsby with
Conrad's Heart of Darkness. -
12. Analyze the influence of T. S. Eliot's "The
Waste Land" on The Great Gatsby. -
13. Discuss Fitzgerald's handling of time in
The Great Gatsby. -
14. Show how Gatsby and Nick are really two sides of Fitzgerald. -
15. Describe how The Great Gatsby is a commentary on the American Dream.
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