F. Scott Fitzgerald - Quiz
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  • 1. When was F. Scott Fitzgerald born?
A) 1888
B) 1896
C) 1900
D) 1920
  • 2. What novel is F. Scott Fitzgerald best known for?
A) To Kill a Mockingbird
B) The Great Gatsby
C) Pride and Prejudice
D) 1984
  • 3. Which one of Fitzgerald's novels was published posthumously?
A) The Last Tycoon
B) The Beautiful and Damned
C) This Side of Paradise
D) Tender Is the Night
  • 4. Where was F. Scott Fitzgerald born?
A) Chicago, Illinois
B) New York City, New York
C) St. Paul, Minnesota
D) Los Angeles, California
  • 5. What is the title of Fitzgerald's first novel?
A) This Side of Paradise
B) Tender Is the Night
C) The Beautiful and Damned
D) The Great Gatsby
  • 6. Which writer was a close friend of Fitzgerald and influenced his writing?
A) Edith Wharton
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) William Faulkner
D) Virginia Woolf
  • 7. What is the last completed novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
A) Tender Is the Night
B) The Great Gatsby
C) The Beautiful and Damned
D) This Side of Paradise
  • 8. What is the protagonist's name in 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) Jay Gatsby
B) Nick Carraway
C) Holden Caulfield
D) Atticus Finch
  • 9. 'Tales of the Jazz Age' is a collection of?
A) Novel
B) Poetry
C) Short Stories
D) Essays
  • 10. Fitzgerald's real first name is?
A) Fabian
B) Felix
C) Francis
D) Frederick
  • 11. Which university did F. Scott Fitzgerald briefly attend but did not graduate from?
A) Stanford University
B) Yale University
C) Harvard University
D) Princeton University
  • 12. In which war did Fitzgerald serve in the military?
A) World War I
B) Korean War
C) Civil War
D) Vietnam War
  • 13. How many novels did F. Scott Fitzgerald publish during his lifetime?
A) Five
B) Six
C) Three
D) Four
  • 14. Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife that struggled with mental health issues?
A) Sheilah Graham
B) Zelda Sayre
C) Ginevra King
D) Edith Wharton
  • 15. What was F. Scott Fitzgerald's occupation in Hollywood?
A) Screenwriter
B) Director
C) Actor
D) Producer
  • 16. Who edited and published 'The Last Tycoon' after Fitzgerald's death?
A) Sheilah Graham
B) Edmund Wilson
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Zelda Sayre
  • 17. What was F. Scott Fitzgerald's financial situation during the Great Depression?
A) Struggled financially
B) Became wealthy
C) Prospered
D) Remained stable
  • 18. What illness did Zelda Sayre suffer from?
A) Bipolar disorder
B) Depression
C) Alzheimer's disease
D) Schizophrenia
  • 19. Which magazine was NOT mentioned as one F. Fitzgerald wrote for?
A) The Saturday Evening Post
B) Collier's Weekly
C) The New Yorker
D) Esquire
  • 20. What was the cause of F. Scott Fitzgerald's death?
A) Heart attack
B) Car accident
C) Alcoholism
D) Pneumonia
  • 21. What was Fitzgerald's mother's name?
A) Elizabeth Fitzgerald
B) Mary 'Molly' McQuillan Fitzgerald
C) Anne Fitzgerald
D) Sarah Fitzgerald
  • 22. Which business did Edward Fitzgerald start after the Civil War?
A) A textile mill
B) A bank
C) A wicker-furniture manufacturing business
D) A grocery store
  • 23. Where was Mary Surratt, related to Fitzgerald's father, executed?
A) During the Civil War
B) For espionage during World War I
C) For conspiring to assassinate Abraham Lincoln
D) For theft
  • 24. Which school did Fitzgerald attend in Buffalo from 1905 to 1908?
A) Nardin Academy
B) Holy Angels Convent
C) Buffalo High School
D) Procter & Gamble School
  • 25. What happened to Fitzgerald's father in March 1908?
A) He started a new business
B) He won the lottery
C) He retired
D) He was fired from Procter & Gamble
  • 26. What school did Fitzgerald attend in Saint Paul after returning there?
A) Procter & Gamble Academy
B) St. Paul Academy
C) Newman School
D) Buffalo High School
  • 27. Where was the first piece of Fitzgerald's fiction published?
A) On a national news website
B) In a family newsletter
C) In the school newspaper at St. Paul Academy
D) In a local magazine
  • 28. Which Catholic prep school did Fitzgerald attend in New Jersey?
A) The Newman School in Hackensack
B) Nardin Academy
C) Holy Angels Convent
D) St. Paul Academy
  • 29. Who recognized Fitzgerald's literary potential at the Newman School?
A) His father, Edward Fitzgerald
B) Fitzgerald's mother
C) Father Sigourney Fay
D) A school teacher
  • 30. In which year did F. Scott Fitzgerald graduate from Newman?
A) 1912
B) 1913
C) 1915
D) 1914
  • 31. Who helped F. Scott Fitzgerald find a home in Delaware?
A) Edmund Wilson
B) John Peale Bishop
C) Max Perkins
D) John Biggs Jr.
  • 32. Which of the following characters was inspired by Ginevra King in 'This Side of Paradise'?
A) Amory Blaine
B) Isabelle Borgé
C) Daisy Buchanan
D) Jordan Baker
  • 33. Which military rank did F. Scott Fitzgerald achieve in the United States Army?
A) Captain
B) Second lieutenant
C) Sergeant
D) Major
  • 34. Who was the commanding officer of the training camp where Fitzgerald was stationed?
A) Colonel George Patton
B) General Douglas MacArthur
C) Captain Dwight D. Eisenhower
D) Major Richard Nixon
  • 35. What was the title of the manuscript F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote before World War I?
A) Tender Is the Night
B) The Great Gatsby
C) This Side of Paradise
D) The Romantic Egotist
  • 36. Which publisher rejected 'The Romantic Egotist'?
A) Harper & Brothers
B) Random House
C) Scribner's
D) Penguin Books
  • 37. Who praised Fitzgerald's writing after rejecting 'The Romantic Egotist'?
A) Edmund Wilson
B) John Peale Bishop
C) Max Perkins
D) Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • 38. What did Max Perkins encourage Fitzgerald to do after rejecting 'The Romantic Egotist'?
A) Submit it to another publisher immediately
B) Abandon the manuscript
C) Give up writing
D) Resubmit it after further revisions
  • 39. Where was Fitzgerald garrisoned with the 45th and 67th Infantry Regiments?
A) Camp Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama
B) New York City
C) Camp Mills, Long Island
D) Chicago
  • 40. What did Fitzgerald continue writing to after meeting Zelda?
A) An editor for a newspaper
B) His mother
C) Zelda
D) Ginevra
  • 41. What did the Fitzgeralds accuse each other of as their quarrels worsened?
A) Lack of ambition
B) Marital infidelities
C) Poor parenting
D) Financial mismanagement
  • 42. Who was Zelda infatuated with during their time on the French Riviera?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) Maxwell Perkins
C) Édouard Jozan
D) T. S. Eliot
  • 43. What was Fitzgerald's job in New York City?
A) Working as a journalist
B) Teaching at a university
C) Writing advertising copy
D) Serving as an editor for a magazine
  • 44. Which literary style did 'The Beautiful and Damned' emulate?
A) Thomas Hardy's ironical-pessimistic style
B) Joseph Conrad's narrative style
C) H. G. Wells' science fiction
D) Willa Cather's lyrical prose
  • 45. What contributed to The Great Gatsby's later acclaim and popularity?
A) The popular dust-jacket art named Celestial Eyes.
B) A film adaptation in the 1930s
C) A Broadway play
D) A television series based on the novel
  • 46. Which story did Fitzgerald describe as his first attempt at the Gatsby idea?
A) Babylon Revisited
B) The Great Gatsby
C) The Vegetable
D) Winter Dreams
  • 47. How many copies did 'This Side of Paradise' sell in its first year?
A) 5,000 copies
B) 10,000 copies
C) Approximately 40,000 copies
D) 100,000 copies
  • 48. What year was 'Tales of the Jazz Age' released?
A) 1921
B) 1922
C) 1924
D) 1923
  • 49. How many short stories did F. Scott Fitzgerald write?
A) 175
B) 150
C) 164
D) 200
  • 50. What did Fitzgerald send Zelda in March 1919?
A) A letter of apology
B) A bouquet of flowers
C) His mother's ring
D) A book he wrote
  • 51. What phrase did Fitzgerald's neighbor Max Gerlach frequently use?
A) "Top of the morning"
B) "Old sport"
C) "The bee's knees"
D) "Gentlemen prefer blondes"
  • 52. What did Edmund Wilson believe Fitzgerald lacked in his early works?
A) Engagement with socio-political issues
B) Narrative skill
C) Imagination
D) Intellectual substance
  • 53. Who first encountered the Fitzgeralds riding on the roof of a taxi?
A) Writer Dorothy Parker
B) Comedian Ed Wynn
C) Actor Lew Fields
D) Cartoonist Rube Goldberg
  • 54. Who criticized Fitzgerald's short stories in 1933?
A) Harold Ober
B) Budd Schulberg
C) Journalist Matthew Josephson
D) H. L. Mencken
  • 55. What type of film was F. Scott Fitzgerald invited to write in Hollywood?
A) A flapper comedy
B) A silent drama
C) A romantic musical
D) A war documentary
  • 56. What was the societal transition that defined the lives of the Jazz Age generation according to Fitzgerald?
A) Industrial revolution
B) Reversion to traditional values
C) Transition towards modernity
D) Post-war reconstruction
  • 57. In which year did the Fitzgeralds return to America after their time in Europe?
A) 1926
B) 1928
C) 1924
D) 1930
  • 58. What did Fitzgerald do while revising his novel?
A) Taught English at a local school
B) Wrote articles for newspapers
C) Worked a job repairing train car roofs
D) Performed in jazz clubs
  • 59. What is a key characteristic of Jay Gatsby that reflects Fitzgerald's own sense of otherness?
A) Established class status
B) Clear ethno-religious identity
C) Old Stock American ancestry
D) Obscure origins
  • 60. Who was Fitzgerald's final companion before his death?
A) Ginevra King
B) Harold Ober
C) Sheilah Graham
D) Zelda Fitzgerald
  • 61. Which of these literary figures praised The Great Gatsby upon its release?
A) James Joyce
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) Virginia Woolf
D) Willa Cather
  • 62. How many rejection letters did Fitzgerald receive for his early writings?
A) 200 rejection letters
B) 100 rejection letters
C) 50 rejection letters
D) Over 122 rejection letters
  • 63. Who successfully petitioned to move Fitzgerald and Zelda's remains to the family plot?
A) Scottie
B) Harold Ober
C) Edmund Wilson
D) Maxwell Perkins
  • 64. When was 'This Side of Paradise' first published?
A) December 25, 1918
B) January 15, 1919
C) July 4, 1921
D) March 26, 1920
  • 65. Where did Zelda undergo treatment for her mental illness in Switzerland?
A) A clinic
B) A private sanatorium
C) A general hospital
D) A university hospital
  • 66. Which critic hailed 'This Side of Paradise' as the best American novel of the year?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Gertrude Stein
C) T.S. Eliot
D) H. L. Mencken
  • 67. What profession did Max Gerlach have after World War I?
A) An actor
B) A banker
C) A professor
D) A gentleman bootlegger
  • 68. Which magazine did Fitzgerald often write stories for?
A) Reader's Digest
B) Vogue
C) The Saturday Evening Post
D) Time Magazine
  • 69. What did Fitzgerald mock himself as through the character of Pat Hobby?
A) An influential writer.
B) A successful director.
C) A Hollywood hack.
D) A talented actor.
  • 70. How did Hemingway describe the changes Fitzgerald made to his stories for magazines?
A) Simplifying
B) Enhancing
C) Whoring
D) Elaborating
  • 71. What was the primary impetus for Fitzgerald writing short stories?
A) Money
B) Artistic expression
C) Personal satisfaction
D) Critical acclaim
  • 72. Which F. Scott Fitzgerald short story was adapted into a 1921 film?
A) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
B) "Winter Dreams"
C) "The Off-Shore Pirate"
D) "May Day"
  • 73. Where did the Fitzgeralds spend time after wintering in Italy?
A) Germany
B) France
C) Spain
D) England
  • 74. Where did Fitzgerald and his family sojourn when he faced a marital crisis?
A) French Riviera
B) London
C) Rome
D) Paris
  • 75. Where was 'The Beautiful and Damned' first serialized?
A) Scribner's
B) Metropolitan Magazine
C) Vanity Fair
D) The New Yorker
  • 76. What societal status did F. Scott Fitzgerald feel he lacked during his upbringing?
A) Education
B) Cultural knowledge
C) Popularity
D) Wealth
  • 77. What did the Fitzgeralds consume at every outing during the Jazz Age?
A) Gin-and-fruit concoctions
B) Wine and cheese
C) Tea and biscuits
D) Coffee and pastries
  • 78. Which literary work is the initial title 'Trimalchio' an allusion to?
A) The Aeneid
B) Satyricon
C) Metamorphoses
D) The Odyssey
  • 79. What was the title of Zelda Fitzgerald's fictionalized version of their experiences published in 1932?
A) Save Me the Waltz
B) The Beautiful and Damned
C) This Side of Paradise
D) "Tender Is the Night"
  • 80. Which short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald was adapted into episodes of anthology television series?
A) "Absolution"
B) "Winter Dreams"
C) "The Ice Palace"
D) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
  • 81. How much did Fitzgerald earn for selling his first story?
A) $10
B) $50
C) $100
D) $30
  • 82. From whom did Fitzgerald borrow biographical incidents for 'The Rich Boy'?
A) John V. A. Weaver
B) Ludlow Fowler
C) Max Perkins
D) Ginevra King
  • 83. Where did F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda relocate after being asked to leave the Biltmore Hotel?
A) The Commodore Hotel on 42nd Street
B) The Ritz-Carlton
C) The Waldorf Astoria
D) The Plaza Hotel
  • 84. What was the name of the estate in Maryland where Fitzgerald rented a place to work on his novel?
A) "Ellerslie"
B) "Pickfair"
C) "Towson Manor"
D) "La Paix"
  • 85. What did Fitzgerald liken the Jazz Age to in terms of societal behavior?
A) A morally permissive time when Americans became disillusioned with prevailing social norms and obsessed with self-gratification
B) A time of political stability and peace
C) An era of strict moral codes and traditional values
D) A period of economic depression and hardship
  • 86. Which F. Scott Fitzgerald short story was adapted into a 1920 film titled 'The Chorus Girl's Romance'?
A) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
B) "The Ice Palace"
C) "Winter Dreams"
D) "May Day"
  • 87. How much were Fitzgerald's book royalties by 1936?
A) $200
B) $500
C) $80
D) $1000
  • 88. When was Fitzgerald discharged from the army?
A) December 1918
B) November 1918
C) September 1918
D) February 14, 1919
  • 89. In which year did F. Scott Fitzgerald move abroad to Europe?
A) 1924
B) 1926
C) 1925
D) 1923
  • 90. Which novel did Gertrude Cather influence with its portrayal of a wealthy socialite?
A) Tender Is the Night
B) A Lost Lady
C) This Side of Paradise
D) The Beautiful and Damned
  • 91. What did Fitzgerald and Zelda engage in during his Montgomery sojourn?
A) Competing in sports
B) Writing poetry together
C) Volunteering at a local hospital
D) Sexual recklessness
  • 92. What health issue caused F. Scott Fitzgerald's death?
A) pulmonary embolism
B) lung cancer
C) occlusive coronary arteriosclerosis
D) stroke
  • 93. In which decade did F. Scott Fitzgerald become a cult figure in American culture?
A) By the 1950s
B) By the 1940s
C) By the 1960s
D) By the 1970s
  • 94. What was the initial title of The Great Gatsby?
A) Trimalchio
B) The Long Island Story
C) The Parvenu's Dream
D) Gatsby's Rise
  • 95. Which studio did John W. Considine Jr. represent when he invited Fitzgerald to Hollywood?
A) United Artists
B) Warner Bros.
C) MGM Studios
D) Paramount Pictures
  • 96. What was the name of the short story F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about Lois Moran?
A) "The Great Gatsby"
B) "Save Me the Waltz"
C) "Tender Is the Night"
D) "Magnetism"
  • 97. What was the name of F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel?
A) Tender Is the Night
B) The Great Gatsby
C) This Side of Paradise
D) The Beautiful and Damned
  • 98. Which author wrote that Gatsby was the only flawless novel in American literature?
A) Budd Schulberg
B) John O'Hara
C) Edward Newhouse
D) Charles Jackson
  • 99. Which F. Scott Fitzgerald short story was adapted into a 1926 film?
A) "Winter Dreams"
B) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
C) "The Rich Boy"
D) "May Day"
  • 100. Who observed that Fitzgerald showed a constantly growing mastery as an American novelist?
A) Burke Van Allen
B) Edith Wharton
C) T. S. Eliot
D) John V. A. Weaver
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