Question 10 (5 points)
read the passage below and answer the question that follows.
"i’ve got a man in england who buys me clothes. he sends over a selection of things at the beginning of each season, spring and fall.’
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 higher—shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange with monograms of indian blue.
suddenly with a strained sound, daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.
“they're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. "it makes me sad because i've never seen such—such beautiful shirts before."
these sentences, spoken by daisy to gatsby reveal what about her character?
question 10 options:
daisy is very much in love with gatsby and overwhelmed by her emotions for him even though she is technically speaking about the shirts.
daisy is be sarcastic because she believes the shirts are actually ugly and low-grade, thus showing her to be uptight.
daisy is materialistic and overcome with emotion about the high quality of the shirts which shows how wealthy gatsby has become.
both a and c are correct.
question 11 (5 points)
deduce the realization that tom comes to as you read the following passage:
‘who wants to go to town? ’ demanded daisy insistently.
gatsby’s eyes floated toward her. ‘ah,’ she cried, ‘you look so cool.’ their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. with an effort she glanced down at the table.
‘you always look so cool,’ she repeated.
she had told him that she loved him, and tom buchanan saw. he was astounded. his mouth opened a little and he looked at gatsby and then back at daisy as if he had just recognized her as someone he knew a long time ago.
question 11 options:
tom realizes that there is something going on between daisy and gatsby.
tom realizes that he wore the wrong clothes for the day, and that is why he is hot and not cool like gatsby.
tom realizes that daisy secretly hates gatsby and wants him to go home.
tom realizes that he really does love daisy and that he has been taking her for granted.
question 12 (5 points)
what effect does gatsby have on the reader when he says that daisy's voice is "full of money" ?
question 12 options:
it reminds readers that he has the soul of an old poet in him.
it lets readers see that he completely rejects the idea that he might be able to win her back by simply becoming very rich himself.
it suggests to readers that attraction to wealth is a defining and intrinsic aspect of daisy's character.
it readers understand the musicality of daisy's voice.
question 13 (5 points)
how does gatsby meet his death?
question 13 options:
gatsby drowns while swimming for the first time that summer.
tom shots gatsby when he finds him stealing away with daisy.
wilson shoots gatsby while he is in the pool.
gatsby shoots himself when daisy rejects him and returns to tom.
question 14 (5 points)
when nick runs into tom at the end of the novel, what does the reader learn? refer to the following passage:
‘tom,’ i inquired, ‘what did you say to wilson that afternoon? ’
he stared at me without a word and i knew i had guessed right about those missing hours. i started to turn away but he took a step after me and grabbed my arm. ‘i told him the truth,’ he said. ‘he came to the door while we were getting ready to leave and when i sent down word that we weren’t in, he tried to force his way upstairs. he was crazy enough to kill me if i hadn’t told him who owned the car. his hand was on a revolver in his pocket every minute he was in the house——’ he broke off defiantly. ‘what if i did tell him? that fellow had it coming to him. he threw dust into your eyes just like he did in daisy’s but he was a tough one. he ran over myrtle like you’d run over a dog and never even stopped his car.’
there was nothing i could say, except the one unutterable fact that it wasn’t true.
question 14 options:
the reader learns that daisy killed herself after learning of gatsby's death.
the reader learns that daisy confessed to driving the car that killed myrtle.
the reader learns that tom told wilson that gatsby had driven the car that killed myrtle.
the reader learns that tom was trying to protect daisy from wilson.