Honors English II & English III (The Great Gatsby) Study Guide

The Great Gatsby Study Guide with Test Review and Study Questions
TEST: A test on the book will be given the rst week of school.
I. Matching of characters (10 questions)

• Jay Gatsby
• Nick Carraway
• Daisy Buchanan
• Tom Buchanan
• Jordan Baker
• Myrtle Wilson
• George Wilson
• Wolfsheim
• Klipspringer
• Michaelis
• Dr. TJ Eckleburg
II. Quotes (8 questions) – These are fairly obvious IF you read the book.
III. True/False (12 questions) – about details in the novel

Ex. The story takes place in New Jersey. FALSE
IV. Multiple Choice (20 questions) – also about details in the novel
Ex. The Great Gatsby takes place during the (a) 1920s (b) 1930s (c) 1940s
The Great Gatsby Chapter Study Questions

* This is NOT a comprehensive review sheet. The questions are intended to GUIDE you, not cover all of
the specific material on the test. Reading the novel will fill in the gaps in the questions.
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Chapter 1
1. In the novel’s preface, this quote by Thomas Parke D’Invilliers appears: “Then wear
the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry
‘Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!’” Who is the “gold-hatted lover” of
the quote? Who is the narrator of the novel?
2. What is Nick’s social class/background? How did his family make its money?
3. Where does he live? Describe his house.
4. How is West Egg different from East Egg?
5. Who are Tom and Daisy Buchanan? What is Daisy’s relationship to Nick?
6. A phone call for Tom interrupts dinner. Who called? For what reason? Who tells Nick about it?
7. When asked about her daughter, Daisy said she hopes Pammy will be a “beautiful little fool”
(21). Why?
8. At the end of the chapter, Nick sees Gatsby alone on the lawn. What is he doing?
Chapter 2
9. Describe the “valley of ashes.”
10. Who did Tom take Nick to meet? Describe him.
11. What did Myrtle buy while she was out with Tom and Nick?
12. What reason did Myrtle give for marrying George Wilson?
13. What did Tom do to Myrtle when she mentioned Daisy's name?
Chapter 3
14. Nick describes the people who attend Gatsby’s parties and says “that once there, the guests
conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks”
(45). What does this mean?
15. Why did Nick go to the party? How does Nick meet Gatsby? How does Nick describe Gatsby
(p. 53)?
16. What are some of the stories about Gatsby?
17. What does Nick learn about Jordan?
Chapter 4
18. What is strange about Nick’s drive into the city with Gatsby? What does Gatsby tell Nick about
himself? Does Nick believe him?
19. What “matter” did Gatsby have Jordan Baker discuss with Nick? What did Jordan tell Nick
about Gatsby’s house?
20. Describe Meyer Wolfsheim.
21. In the story, what causes Daisy to get drunk the night before her wedding?
22. What do we learn about Tom from Jordan’s story of Tom’s car wreck?
23. What does Gatsby want Nick to do for him?
Chapter 5
24. Describe the meeting between Gatsby and Daisy. Why was he so nervous?
25. Why did Gatsby want Daisy to see the house and his clothes?
26. As the three of them look across the bay toward Daisy’s house, Nick tells us, “Possibly it had
occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.
Compared to that great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near
to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a
green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one” (98). What
does Fitzgerald mean by the “great distance” between Gatsby and Daisy? Why do you think
that the green light is now just a light on the dock and that Gatsby’s “count of enchanted
objects had diminished by one”?
Chapter 6
27. What is Gatsby's real history? Where is he from, and what is his name?
28. What did Dan Cody do for Gatsby?
29. Why did he not get the $25,000 left to him in Cody’s will?
30. What does Gatsby want from Daisy?
31. What is Nick’s view of repeating the past? What is Gatsby’s?
Chapter 7
32. Why does Gatsby quit throwing parties?
33. Describe the driving arrangements that bring the five characters into the city.
34. During the encounter with George Wilson at the garage, what do we learn that George has
realized?
35. Who does Myrtle think Jordan is?
36. As they drink in the hotel, what does Tom call Gatsby out on?
37. Why is it so important to Gatsby that Daisy say she never loved Tom?
38. What did Tom find out in his investigation of Gatsby? What is Daisy’s reaction to this news?
39. Describe the hit and run scene.
40. Who was driving the car that hit Myrtle? Why was this person driving?
Chapter 8
41. Nick tells Gatsby that Tom and Daisy are “a rotten crowd” and that he is “worth the whole
damn bunch put together” (162). What does that mean?
42. Nick tells us more about what happened the night Myrtle died. What object told George she
was having an affair?
43. Why did Myrtle run toward the yellow car?
44. Why does Wilson believe Gatsby killed Myrtle?
45. What does Wilson do?
Chapter 9 (Nick remembers these events two years later)

46. Who came to Gatsby’s funeral? Why didn't anyone else come?
47. Who is Henry C. Gatz?
48. What shocking piece of information does Nick receive in his chance meeting with Tom? What
is Nick’s final feeling about Tom and Daisy?
49. What does the following line from the story mean: “So we beat on, boats against the current,
borne back ceaselessly into the past” (189)?

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The Great Gatsby Study Guide with Test Review and Study Questions

I. Matching of characters (10 questions)

III. True/False (12 questions) – about details in the novel

The Great Gatsby Chapter Study Questions

Chapter 9 (Nick remembers these events two years later)

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