Great Gatsby- Test AP Lang Test
Questions and All Actual Answers.
Which of the following is NOT one of Fitzgerald's narrative strategies in Chapter 1? - Answer
D using connotative language and imagery to emphasize the personal
similarities between Daisy and her husband Tom
Which of the following statements cannot be made about the narrator's comment, "Among the
broken fragments of the last five minutes at table I remember the candles being lit again,
pointlessly, and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at everyone and yet to avoid all
eyes?" - Answer B The narrator is reacting to a startling truth just revealed about Tom
Buchanan's wealth.
Nick's comment about Tom that "something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as
if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart" suggests that - Answer
D Tom is not completely satisfied.
"This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and
grotesque gardens"— - Answer A contains paradoxical imagery
The symbolic eyes described in chapter 2 are actually - Answer C an old billboard ad for an
eye doctor
At Mrs. Wilson's New York apartment, an elevator boy goes for milk and biscuits, "one of which
decomposed apathetically in the saucer of milk all afternoon." What is the best explanation for
Fitzgerald's inclusion of this detail? - Answer D to complement the sense of moral laxness
and indifference which Nick
senses in the people around him
"Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human
secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was with him too, looking up and
wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the
inexhaustible variety of life." Which of the following statements is NOT true about this quote? -
Answer C It follows Nick's mysterious encounter with Gatsby and Nick's fascination
with the secret details of Gatsby's past.
Which of the following does NOT occur in Nick's account of the conclusion and aftermath of
Myrtle's party? - Answer B Jordan unexpectedly drops in to check on Tom's whereabouts
, From your understanding of the familiarity of Gatsby's guests with each other, what does
"erroneous" mean in the following sentence: "The orchestra leader varies his rhythm obligingly
for her and there is a burst of chatter as the erroneous news goes around that she is Gilda
Gray's understudy from the 'Follies.'" - Answer B misleading
Nick attends Gatsby's party because - Answer A he has been invited
Which of the following is NOT an inference Nick makes about the guests at Gatsby's party? -
Answer D Gatsby seems completely unaware of his guests and their activities.
Which is NOT an assumption which underlies Nick's comment about Gatsby: "It was testimony
to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who
had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in the world." - Answer B The rumors
about Gatsby's past dealt mainly with his past loves
The incident with Owl-Eyes in the library reveals that - Answer D Gatsby spared no expense
in impressing his guests.
"There was dancing now on the canvas in the garden, old men pushing young girls backward in
eternal graceless circles, superior couples holding each other tortuously, fashionably and
keeping in the corners—and a great number of single girls dancing individualistically or relieving
the orchestra for a moment of the burden of the banjo or the traps. By midnight the hilarity had
increased. A celebrated tenor had sung in Italian and a notorious contralto had sung in jazz and
between the numbers people were doing 'stunts' all over the garden while happy vacuous
bursts of laughter rose toward the summer sky."
Which of the following comments most accurately describes Fitzgerald's purpose in this
passage? - Answer B Several words with unpleasant connotations cast a negative feeling over
the lively party description.
Which of the following is NOT an intended effect of Fitzgerald's passage in which Nick finds an
old time-table on which he had listed the names of guests to Gatsby's parties? - Answer C to
show that Nick cherished his association with Gatsby's guests
"It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length
with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of
wndshields that mirrored a dozen suns. Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of
green leather conservatory, we started to town." Which of the following best expresses how
Fitzgerald's diction creates our sense of Gatsby's car? - Answer B Details such as "monstrous
length," "labyrinth of windshields," "many layers
of glass," and "green leather conservatory" emphasize the elaborate,
ostentatious, showiness of the car.
Questions and All Actual Answers.
Which of the following is NOT one of Fitzgerald's narrative strategies in Chapter 1? - Answer
D using connotative language and imagery to emphasize the personal
similarities between Daisy and her husband Tom
Which of the following statements cannot be made about the narrator's comment, "Among the
broken fragments of the last five minutes at table I remember the candles being lit again,
pointlessly, and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at everyone and yet to avoid all
eyes?" - Answer B The narrator is reacting to a startling truth just revealed about Tom
Buchanan's wealth.
Nick's comment about Tom that "something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as
if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart" suggests that - Answer
D Tom is not completely satisfied.
"This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and
grotesque gardens"— - Answer A contains paradoxical imagery
The symbolic eyes described in chapter 2 are actually - Answer C an old billboard ad for an
eye doctor
At Mrs. Wilson's New York apartment, an elevator boy goes for milk and biscuits, "one of which
decomposed apathetically in the saucer of milk all afternoon." What is the best explanation for
Fitzgerald's inclusion of this detail? - Answer D to complement the sense of moral laxness
and indifference which Nick
senses in the people around him
"Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human
secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was with him too, looking up and
wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the
inexhaustible variety of life." Which of the following statements is NOT true about this quote? -
Answer C It follows Nick's mysterious encounter with Gatsby and Nick's fascination
with the secret details of Gatsby's past.
Which of the following does NOT occur in Nick's account of the conclusion and aftermath of
Myrtle's party? - Answer B Jordan unexpectedly drops in to check on Tom's whereabouts
, From your understanding of the familiarity of Gatsby's guests with each other, what does
"erroneous" mean in the following sentence: "The orchestra leader varies his rhythm obligingly
for her and there is a burst of chatter as the erroneous news goes around that she is Gilda
Gray's understudy from the 'Follies.'" - Answer B misleading
Nick attends Gatsby's party because - Answer A he has been invited
Which of the following is NOT an inference Nick makes about the guests at Gatsby's party? -
Answer D Gatsby seems completely unaware of his guests and their activities.
Which is NOT an assumption which underlies Nick's comment about Gatsby: "It was testimony
to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who
had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in the world." - Answer B The rumors
about Gatsby's past dealt mainly with his past loves
The incident with Owl-Eyes in the library reveals that - Answer D Gatsby spared no expense
in impressing his guests.
"There was dancing now on the canvas in the garden, old men pushing young girls backward in
eternal graceless circles, superior couples holding each other tortuously, fashionably and
keeping in the corners—and a great number of single girls dancing individualistically or relieving
the orchestra for a moment of the burden of the banjo or the traps. By midnight the hilarity had
increased. A celebrated tenor had sung in Italian and a notorious contralto had sung in jazz and
between the numbers people were doing 'stunts' all over the garden while happy vacuous
bursts of laughter rose toward the summer sky."
Which of the following comments most accurately describes Fitzgerald's purpose in this
passage? - Answer B Several words with unpleasant connotations cast a negative feeling over
the lively party description.
Which of the following is NOT an intended effect of Fitzgerald's passage in which Nick finds an
old time-table on which he had listed the names of guests to Gatsby's parties? - Answer C to
show that Nick cherished his association with Gatsby's guests
"It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length
with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of
wndshields that mirrored a dozen suns. Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of
green leather conservatory, we started to town." Which of the following best expresses how
Fitzgerald's diction creates our sense of Gatsby's car? - Answer B Details such as "monstrous
length," "labyrinth of windshields," "many layers
of glass," and "green leather conservatory" emphasize the elaborate,
ostentatious, showiness of the car.
