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Chapter 5 Quiz: Gatsby Analysis Questions

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Chapter 5 Quiz: Gatsby Analysis Questions

This document contains a quiz on Chapter 5 of The Great Gatsby, asking students to answer multiple choice and short answer questions about passages from the text. Students are asked to sign a statement agreeing they have not cheated on the quiz. The passages from the text explore Gatsby's feelings and the symbolism of objects in establishing his relationship to Daisy.

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Chapter 5 Quiz

By signing this I agree that I have neither cheated nor helped anyone to cheat, and I understand
that if this is found to be false I will receive a zero.

Signature:_____________________________________________

For questions 1-4, read the passage and answer the question that follows based on said passage.
Answer in complete sentences.

1. Gatsby looked with vacant eyes through a copy of Clays Economics, starting at the
Finnish tread that shook the kitchen floor and peering toward the bleared windows from
time to time as if a series of invisible but alarming happenings were taking place outside.
Finally, he got up and informed me in an uncertain voice that he was going home.

What can Gatsby be inferred to be feeling in this passage? What in the passage acts as evidence
for this inference? How?

2. He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them one by one before us, shirts of
sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel which lost their folds as they fell and covered
the table in many-colored disarray. While we admired he brought more and the soft rich
heap mounted highershirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple green
and lavender and faint orange with monograms of Indian blue.

We know that symbols are observable objects or actions that can be said to represent a more
abstract concept or idea. What might the shirts symbolize, and why does Gatsby display them as
he does?
3. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now
vanished forever. Compared to the 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.

Why was the light no longer as significant to Gatsby as it had been? Why had it been so
significant to him in the first place?

4. [A]s though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness.
Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy
tumbled short of his dreamsnot through her own fault but because of the colossal
vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself
into it with a creative passion. . .

Explain in at least two sentences what this passage means. What does it tell us about Gatsby and
his expectations?

5. What part of this chapter can you best compare or contrast to experiences from your own
life? Describe the event of the chapter and the connections or contrasts to your own life.
If beneficial, think back to the last journal entry you were assigned.

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