The Great Gatsby Chapter Test

This is a test grade, so be sure to do a good job answering these chapter questions. Each day as you read a chapter, answer the questions and submit them for credit. Be sure to record the question # as you submit your work each day.

Chapter 1 (do 6)

  1. What state does the novel take place in?
  2. What part of the state does Nick live in? How does he compare it with East Egg?
  3. Who is Nick’s neighbor?
  4. Give a brief description of his neighbor’s house.
  5. Who lives in East Egg whom Nick knows?
  6. What had Tom Buchannan done at New Haven?
  7. What is the connection between Nick and Daisy?
  8. What two adjectives does Nick use to describe Daisy’s face?
  9. Chapter one contains the first reference to the automobile. Who makes the reference? What does he say about the rear wheels of the cars?
  10. How old is Tom and Daisy’s daughter?

Chapter 2 (Do 6)

  1. What is half way between East Egg and New York?
  2. What appears out of nowhere in the Valley of Ashes? (hint: remember the importance of eyes to the novel)
  3. Why does Nick meet Tom’s mistress even though he has no desire to meet her?
  4. What three shops are located on the Main Street of the Valley of Ashes?
  5. What is George B. Wilson’s occupation?
  6. What are four descriptions Nick gives of George Wilson?
  7. What springs into George Wilson’s eyes when he sees Tom and Nick?
  8. What does Wilson want from Tom?

Chapter 3 (Do 5)

  1. What simile does Fitzgerald use to describe the way people came and went to Gatsby’s parties?
  2. What does Gatsby’s Rolls-Royce seem to become on the weekends?
  3. What arrives at Gatsby’s every Friday?
  4. What leaves Gatsby’s every Monday? What change has occurred?
  5. How does Gatsby provide music for his parties?
  6. What is present at Gatsby’s parties that the Volstead Act of 1919 prohibited?
  7. What about Nick is different from the other guests at Gatsby’s parties?

Chapter 4 (Do 7)

  1. Where are the people when the Church bells are ringing on Sunday morning?
  2. According to one of the young ladies at the party, who is Gatsby a second cousin to?
  3. List 5 names of people who attend Gatsby’s parties. What might some of these names signify about these people?
  4. Nick accounts that "Mrs. Ulyssees Swett’s automobile ran over his [Ripley Snell’s] right hand. What was Mr. Snell’s condition?
  5. What does Mr. Klipspringer become known as and why?
  6. Gatsby arrives at Nick’s house early one July morning. What is his purpose?
  7. What disappoints Nick about Gatsby?
  8. What, exactly, does Gatsby reveal to Nick about himself?
  9. What three habits of Gatsby’s speaking make Nick believe he may be lying about his past?
  10. Where does Gatsby say his money comes from?

Chapter 5 (Do 6)

  1. What does Gatsby suggest in order to try to help Nick with his financial state?
  2. What does Gatsby do to Nick’s home to prepare for his tea with Daisy?
  3. What colors make up Gatsby’s attire? What do these colors symbolize?
  4. What is Gatsby’s emotional state prior to Daisy’s arrival at Nick’s?
  5. What surprises Nick on his reentry into his living room?
  6. What description does Nick give of Gatsby standing at his door?
  7. What does Gatsby reveal to Daisy about the placement of her house?
  8. Who is in the picture that Nick notices?

Chapter 6 (Do 5)

  1. Who arrives to investigate Gatsby?
  2. What was Gatsby's legal name?
  3. At what age did he change his name?
  4. What event initiated the changing of his name?
  5. Who created Jay Gatsby?
  6. What does Gatsby do for Dan Cody?
  7. Why does Gatsby drink so little?
  8. What does Cody leave to Gatsby? Why does he not get it?
  9. When do Gatsby and Tom meet? Under what circumstance?

Chapter 7 (Do 5)

  1. What adverb does Fitzgerald use to describe the way the automobiles drove away?
  2. What has happened to Gatsby's original servants?
  3. What reason does Gatsby give for firing all of his servants?
  4. Who comes to see Gatsby in the afternoons?
  5. What does Gatsby recognize Daisy's voice as being full of?
  6. What remark does Tom make about the drug store?
  7. Whose eyes continue to watch in the Valley of Ashes?
  8. Why do Tom, Jordan, and Nick stop at Wilson's garage?
  9. What car is Tom driving when he stops at Wilson's?
  10. What is wrong with Wilson?
  11. What color is Gatsby's car (the one Tom's driving)?
  12. Who is having a birthday? How old is he?
  13. Who is waiting in the bushes outside of the Buchannan house? Why is he there?
  14. Who was driving the "death car"?

Chapter 8 (Do 5)

  1. What is in the drawer Michaelis opens?
  2. Who does Wilson identify as being God?
  3. Where does Wilson reappear after he disappears from his garage?
  4. Where does Gatsby go that he hasn't gone all summer?
  5. What does Wilson do to Gatsby?

Chapter 9 (Do 5)

  1. What four adjectives does Nick use to describe the newspaper reports of Gatsby's and Wilson's deaths?
  2. Who is Henry C. Gatz?
  3. What does Kilpspringer call about?
  4. When does Nick go home?
  5. What does Nick do before he goes home?
  6. What does Nick learn about Jordan before he leaves?
  7. Who is the other "bad driver" Jordan has met?
  8. What comment does Nick make about being thirty?
  9. Who do we learn was Wilson's informant?