The Great Gatsby Final Test: Whole-Novel Quiz

The Great Gatsby Whole Novel questions

The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.

1. Where does Nick live in relation to Gatsby?
   Next door, in West Egg · Above Wilson's garage · In a hotel in New York · Across the bay in East Egg
2. Nick sets down the story some time after the summer it describes. What does that distance let the novel do?
   Keep a month-by-month record · Judge events from their ending · Narrate without any opinions · Enter Daisy's own thoughts
3. On the hottest day of the summer Tom finds both his wife and his mistress slipping away. How does he respond?
   He offers Myrtle money · He proposes to go West · He turns on Gatsby at once · He confesses to Daisy
4. What does the valley of ashes do in the novel's geography?
   Offers a refuge from East Egg · Lies on the road to Louisville · Marks the city's new industry · Shows the cost of others' ease
5. Why is it not enough for Gatsby that Daisy loves him now?
   He needs the past restored · He owes Wolfshiem an answer · He wants a clean divorce · He must satisfy Nick's doubts
6. Who does Gatsby say fixed the 1919 World's Series?
   Dan Cody · Meyer Wolfshiem · Henry Klipspringer · Tom Buchanan
7. What judgment does Nick pass on Jordan Baker after recalling her first big golf tournament?
   That she envies Daisy's money · That she will marry Tom · That she is incurably dishonest · That she loves him after all
8. How is the green light at the end of Daisy's dock used across the novel?
   As the signal for his parties · As a warning to passing boats · As a sign of the Buchanan money · As the measure of Gatsby's hope
9. Why do so few people come to Gatsby's funeral?
   The crowd only wanted parties · Nick told almost no one · The date was never announced · Wolfshiem kept them away
10. What verdict does Nick finally reach on Tom and Daisy?
    That they were simply unlucky · That they were careless people · That they regretted the summer · That they had been punished

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Original questions written for Pagine. Quotations are from the public-domain text.