SparkNotes: The Great Gatsby: Quiz

1. Why does Tom hit Myrtle at his apartment in New York City?

(A) Because she refuses to see him anymore

(B) Because she asks him to divorce his wife

(C) Because she taunts him about Daisy

(D) Because she flirts with Nick

2. Where is Gatsby’s mansion located?

(A) East Egg

(B) Park Avenue

(C) West Egg

(D) Brooklyn

3. Where does Gatsby’s reunion with Daisy take place?

(A) By the pool

(B) At Nick’s house

(C) At the golf tournament

(D) At the yacht race

4. In what year is The Great Gatsby set?

(A) A. 1925

(B) 1924

(D) 1922

5. Where were Nick and Tom educated?

(A) Yale

(B) Harvard

(C) Princeton

(D) Duke

6. What is Jordan Baker’s occupation?

(A) Softball pitcher

(B) Secretary

(C) Philanthropist

(D) Golfer

7. When he renews his acquaintance with Daisy at Nick’s house, what does Gatsby knock off of the mantle?

(A) Nick’s pipe

(B) A clock

(C) Jordan’s golf trophy

(D) Daisy’s picture

8. What is Nick’s home state?

(A) North Dakota

(B) Minnesota

(C) Wisconsin

(D) Florida

9. Why did Gatsby drop out of college?

(A) He had an offer to go into the copper business with Dan Cody

(B) He and Daisy were getting married, and he needed a job

(C) He wanted to study Russian, but his college did not offer it

(D) He was humiliated by having to work as a janitor to pay his tuition

10. Which millionaire hired the young Gatsby as an assistant?

(A) Cody Baker

(B) Clint McGowan

(C) Hank McGowan

(D) Dan Cody

11. Where is the valley of ashes?

(A) Between West Egg and New York City

(B) Between East Egg and West Egg

(C) Between Death Valley and the Salinas Valley

(D) Between Greenwich Village and Hell’s Kitchen

12. Who among the following comes to Gatsby’s funeral?

(A) Gatsby’s father

(B) Daisy

(C) Tom

(D) Klipspringer

13. Which woman is Tom’s extramarital lover?

(A) Daisy

(B) Ellen

(C) Myrtle

(D) Jordan

14. Who drives the car that kills Myrtle?

(A) Jordan

(B) Daisy

(C) Gatsby

(D) Tom

15. How are Daisy and Nick related?

(A) They are brother and sister

(B) They are married

(C) They are step-siblings

(D) They are cousins

16. Where did Daisy meet Gatsby?

(A) Louisville

(B) East Egg

(C) West Egg

(D) The Plaza Hotel

17. Where did Gatsby study after the war?

(A) Cambridge

(B) The Sorbonne

(C) Oxford

(D) Yale

18. On the day after the confrontation between Tom and Gatsby in New York City, what does Gatsby instruct his gardener not to do?

(A) Drain the pool

(B) Cut the grass

(C) Rake the leaves

(D) Plant corn

19. At the end of the novel, Daisy chooses to be with

(A) Gatsby

(B) Tom

(C) George Wilson

(D) Nick

20. What are the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg?

(A) A magazine ad

(B) The lyrics of a song

(C) A painting in the Guggenheim Museum

(D) A signboard in the valley of ashes

21. Why does Nick move to New York?

(A) To become a lawyer

(B) To learn about the bond business

(C) To attend college

(D) To attend medical school

22. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?

(A) The Roaring Twenties

(B) The Gay Twenties

(C) The Jazz Age

(D) The lost generation

23. Why does Gatsby throw his weekly parties?

(A) To impress Daisy

(B) To cover up his illegal activities

(C) To attract women from East Egg

(D) To impress his neighbors

24. What is Meyer Wolfshiem’s claim to fame?

(A) He made the first batch of bootleg alcohol to be sold in New York

(B) He once beat Al Capone in a fight

(C) He is a former violinist with the New York Philharmonic

(D) rigged the 1919 World Series

25. Where does Gatsby recognize Nick from?

(A) Nick was an undergraduate at Oxford during the months Gatsby studied there

(B) Nick works at the bond house where Gatsby’s stolen securities were taken from

(C) Nick and Gatsby fought in the same battle in World War I

(D) Gatsby has seen his next-door neighbor around, but assumed Nick was one of his own servants