The Great Gatsby Quiz: 22 Questions on Fitzgerald's Novel
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Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby has been called the most famous literary work of the Jazz Age. It tells the story of the years that followed the chaos of World War I, which was the beginning of the economic boom in the United States.
The Great Gatsby Quiz, which we have prepared for you today, contains questions about both the novel itself and its plot. Can you answer each one correctly?
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1. Fitzgerald had many doubts about what the title of what is now known to the world as The Great Gatsby should be. Which option was not among those that the writer eventually rejected?
Gatsby in Love or The American Dream
2. What is the name of the young man on whose behalf the novel is narrated?
Nick Carraway
3. Where does the narrative of Francis Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby begin?
From the advice the narrator's father
4. What was the relationship between Daisy Buchanan and Nick Carraway?
Daisy was Nick's second cousin
5. What were Tom Buchanan's views as judged by his account of the book he read?
Racist
6. How old is Tom and Daisy's daughter?
Three years old
7. Jordan Baker, whom Nick meets while visiting Tom and Daisy was a very famous player in ...
golf
8. Who informs Nick that Tom has a mistress in New York?
Jordan.
9. Who does the man with whom Nick discovers that Gatsby is his fellow soldier turn out to be?
Gatsby himself
10. What happens in the rented apartment where Tom invites Nick over after he introduces him to his mistress?
Tom smashes his mistress's nose after she says his wife's name several times.
11. Did Gatsby go to Oxford?
Yes, but not for long.
12. He does shady things at these parties.
13. Who first met Daisy: Jay Gatsby or Tom Buchanan?
Jay Gatsby
14. After finding out about Daisy and Gatsby's love, Tom accuses him of being a bootlegger. Do you know what a bootlegger does?
Making and selling illegal liquor and selling contraband.
15. Was Daisy able to definitively confirm that she never loved Tom?
No.
16. Who was driving the car that hit Myrtle Wilson?
Daisy.
17. What happens to the Great Gatsby at the end of the novel?
He's killed by the husband of Tom's mistress.
18. Which item was not on young Gatsby's schedule?
Fencing lesson
19. Who attends the Great Gatsby's funeral?
Nick, Gatsby's father and the man who looks like an owl.
20. What was Jay Gatsby's real last name?
Gatz
21. To Francis Cugat is ...
the artist who did the illustration that became the cover of the first edition of The Great Gatsby
22. Was The Great Gatsby widely known during the writer's lifetime?
No