Question

Tom Buchanan is reading a book called The Rise of the Colored Empires. What does this say about his character?



Tom seems to be a white supremacist who is afraid of losing his livelihood to minority groups.


Tom enjoys reading fictional books.


Tom supports progress in minority communities.


Tom care about people of all races.

What do we learn about Tom and Daisy’s marriage in chapter 1?

Question 5 options:

They are very happily married.


Tom has a mistress.


Daisy is cheating on Tom.


They are getting divorced.

Question 6 (1 point)
Identify the sentence from the passage that best supports the claim from the question above.

(1)'Don’t talk. I want to hear what happens.’ ‘Is something happening?’ I inquired innocently. (2)'You mean to say you don’t know?’ said Miss Baker, honestly surprised. ‘I thought everybody knew.’ ‘I don’t.’ (3)‘Why——’ she said hesitantly, ‘Tom’s got some woman in New York.’ ‘Got some woman?’ I repeated blankly. Miss Baker nodded. (4)‘She might have the decency not to telephone him at dinner-time. Don’t you think?’

Question 6 options:

Statement 1


Statement 2


Statement 3


Statement 4

Question 7 (1 point)
Who is George Wilson?

Question 7 options:

Owner of a restaurant in East Egg


Owner of a hotel in West Egg


A mogul who loves to gamble


Owner of a run-down auto shop

Question 8 (1 point)
In the context of the following passage, what is the best definition for the word marred?

Most of the confidences were unsought--frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon--for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

Question 8 options:

the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires


blemished by injury or rough wear


informed about something secret or not generally known


a mild rebuke or criticism

Question 9 (1 point)
Who is Doctor T.J. Eckleburg?

Question 9 options:

Jay Gatsby’s best friend


Nick Carraway’s dentist


An ancient eye doctor whose advertisement still stands in the Valley of Ashes


The eye doctor who works no George Wilson’s cataracts

Question 10 (1 point)
What do the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg symbolize?

Question 10 options:

God staring down upon and judging American society as a moral wasteland


the essential meaninglessness of the world and the arbitrariness of the mental process by which people invest objects with meaning


The American Dream


Both A and B are correct


There is no correct answer

Question 11 (1 point)
Based on its usage in the passage below, what is the meaning of the word reproach?

His family were enormously wealthy--even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach--but now he'd left Chicago and come east in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance he'd brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest.

Question 11 options:

a mild rebuke or criticism


extremely hot


completely wanting or lacking


an exaggerated opinion of your own importance

Answer 1

Answers:

Question 1:

Answer: The correct option is A (Tom seems to be a white supremacist who is afraid of losing his livelihood to minority groups.)

Question 5:

Answer: The correct option is B (Tom has a mistress.)

Question 6:

Answer: The correct statement is 4 (‘She might have the decency not to telephone him at dinner-time. Don’t you think?’)

Question 7:

Answer: The correct option is D (Owner of a run-down auto shop)

Question 8:

Answer: The correct option is C (informed about something secret or not generally known)

Question 9:

Answer: The correct option is C (An ancient eye doctor whose advertisement still stands in the Valley of Ashes)

Question 10:

Answer: The correct option is A (God staring down upon and judging American society as a moral wasteland)

Question 11:

Answer: The correct option is A (a mild rebuke or criticism)

Answer 2

Tom is a white supremacist who is afraid of losing his job at the hands of the minorities.  

Further Explanation:

Tom Buchanan is a character who is an embodiment of brute strength, and his physical strength has a cruel aspect to it. He places emphasis on strength, and thus took care to ensure that he had a large build with respect to body proportions, which he built in his college years. His strength and body make him look bigger, and appear stronger than the others. However as physically endowed he may be, he did not enjoy the occasion of nourishing his knowledge capacities, thereby his mental inflexibility, and his single-handed approach to the world. He develops a particular taste for racist books, and he finds no trouble in repeating them. He is nonchalant about his troubles in marriage with Daisy, even maintaining that there was love after they had cheated on each other. Tom’s personality was thus based on the use of brute strength, and control through violence.

Tom has built his violent personality over the larger part of his life when he began to build himself at an early age. He tasted fame in his youth, after gaining popularity as a well-known football star, however, with due course of time, this faded away. Tom had tried hard to get back his lost fame, but eventually became more melancholic as fame eluded him, and it was this failure that contributed to Tom’s victim complex. His views are utterly racist as the book he reads leaves him worried that he would lose his employment at the hands of minorities, and he perceived them to be a threat to the supremacy of the white race.  

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Answer Details:

Grade: High School

Chapter: The Great Gatsby

Subject: English

Keywords:

Strength, personality, violence, knowledge, fame, victim, employment, white supremacy.