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A) 1888 B) 1920 C) 1900 D) 1896
A) 1984 B) To Kill a Mockingbird C) Pride and Prejudice D) The Great Gatsby
A) Tender Is the Night B) The Last Tycoon C) The Beautiful and Damned D) This Side of Paradise
A) Los Angeles, California B) Chicago, Illinois C) St. Paul, Minnesota D) New York City, New York
A) The Beautiful and Damned B) This Side of Paradise C) The Great Gatsby D) Tender Is the Night
A) Virginia Woolf B) William Faulkner C) Edith Wharton D) Ernest Hemingway
A) The Great Gatsby B) This Side of Paradise C) The Beautiful and Damned D) Tender Is the Night
A) Jay Gatsby B) Holden Caulfield C) Atticus Finch D) Nick Carraway
A) Novel B) Short Stories C) Essays D) Poetry
A) Fabian B) Francis C) Frederick D) Felix
A) Princeton University B) Harvard University C) Yale University D) Stanford University
A) Korean War B) World War I C) Civil War D) Vietnam War
A) Six B) Three C) Four D) Five
A) Sheilah Graham B) Zelda Sayre C) Edith Wharton D) Ginevra King
A) Actor B) Director C) Producer D) Screenwriter
A) Ernest Hemingway B) Zelda Sayre C) Edmund Wilson D) Sheilah Graham
A) Remained stable B) Struggled financially C) Prospered D) Became wealthy
A) Bipolar disorder B) Alzheimer's disease C) Schizophrenia D) Depression
A) The New Yorker B) Esquire C) The Saturday Evening Post D) Collier's Weekly
A) Car accident B) Heart attack C) Alcoholism D) Pneumonia
A) Sarah Fitzgerald B) Anne Fitzgerald C) Elizabeth Fitzgerald D) Mary 'Molly' McQuillan Fitzgerald
A) A wicker-furniture manufacturing business B) A bank C) A grocery store D) A textile mill
A) For conspiring to assassinate Abraham Lincoln B) During the Civil War C) For espionage during World War I D) For theft
A) Buffalo High School B) Holy Angels Convent C) Nardin Academy D) Procter & Gamble School
A) He retired B) He started a new business C) He was fired from Procter & Gamble D) He won the lottery
A) Buffalo High School B) St. Paul Academy C) Procter & Gamble Academy D) Newman School
A) In a family newsletter B) On a national news website C) In the school newspaper at St. Paul Academy D) In a local magazine
A) Nardin Academy B) Holy Angels Convent C) The Newman School in Hackensack D) St. Paul Academy
A) His father, Edward Fitzgerald B) Fitzgerald's mother C) A school teacher D) Father Sigourney Fay
A) 1915 B) 1913 C) 1914 D) 1912
A) John Biggs Jr. B) John Peale Bishop C) Max Perkins D) Edmund Wilson
A) Jordan Baker B) Isabelle Borgé C) Daisy Buchanan D) Amory Blaine
A) Major B) Second lieutenant C) Captain D) Sergeant
A) Major Richard Nixon B) Captain Dwight D. Eisenhower C) Colonel George Patton D) General Douglas MacArthur
A) The Romantic Egotist B) Tender Is the Night C) This Side of Paradise D) The Great Gatsby
A) Scribner's B) Harper & Brothers C) Random House D) Penguin Books
A) John Peale Bishop B) Max Perkins C) Dwight D. Eisenhower D) Edmund Wilson
A) Abandon the manuscript B) Resubmit it after further revisions C) Submit it to another publisher immediately D) Give up writing
A) Camp Mills, Long Island B) New York City C) Chicago D) Camp Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama
A) Zelda B) Ginevra C) His mother D) An editor for a newspaper
A) Marital infidelities B) Poor parenting C) Lack of ambition D) Financial mismanagement
A) Édouard Jozan B) Maxwell Perkins C) F. Scott Fitzgerald D) T. S. Eliot
A) Serving as an editor for a magazine B) Teaching at a university C) Working as a journalist D) Writing advertising copy
A) Joseph Conrad's narrative style B) H. G. Wells' science fiction C) Thomas Hardy's ironical-pessimistic style D) Willa Cather's lyrical prose
A) A Broadway play B) A television series based on the novel C) The popular dust-jacket art named Celestial Eyes. D) A film adaptation in the 1930s
A) The Vegetable B) Babylon Revisited C) Winter Dreams D) The Great Gatsby
A) 10,000 copies B) 100,000 copies C) Approximately 40,000 copies D) 5,000 copies
A) 1922 B) 1924 C) 1921 D) 1923
A) 150 B) 164 C) 200 D) 175
A) A bouquet of flowers B) His mother's ring C) A letter of apology D) A book he wrote
A) "Old sport" B) "Top of the morning" C) "The bee's knees" D) "Gentlemen prefer blondes"
A) Intellectual substance B) Imagination C) Engagement with socio-political issues D) Narrative skill
A) Actor Lew Fields B) Writer Dorothy Parker C) Comedian Ed Wynn D) Cartoonist Rube Goldberg
A) Harold Ober B) Journalist Matthew Josephson C) Budd Schulberg D) H. L. Mencken
A) A war documentary B) A silent drama C) A romantic musical D) A flapper comedy
A) Reversion to traditional values B) Transition towards modernity C) Post-war reconstruction D) Industrial revolution
A) 1930 B) 1928 C) 1926 D) 1924
A) Performed in jazz clubs B) Wrote articles for newspapers C) Taught English at a local school D) Worked a job repairing train car roofs
A) Obscure origins B) Clear ethno-religious identity C) Old Stock American ancestry D) Established class status
A) Zelda Fitzgerald B) Sheilah Graham C) Ginevra King D) Harold Ober
A) Virginia Woolf B) James Joyce C) Willa Cather D) Ernest Hemingway
A) 200 rejection letters B) 100 rejection letters C) 50 rejection letters D) Over 122 rejection letters
A) Scottie B) Harold Ober C) Maxwell Perkins D) Edmund Wilson
A) July 4, 1921 B) March 26, 1920 C) January 15, 1919 D) December 25, 1918
A) A private sanatorium B) A clinic C) A general hospital D) A university hospital
A) H. L. Mencken B) Gertrude Stein C) T.S. Eliot D) Ernest Hemingway
A) A gentleman bootlegger B) An actor C) A banker D) A professor
A) The Saturday Evening Post B) Reader's Digest C) Time Magazine D) Vogue
A) A talented actor. B) A Hollywood hack. C) An influential writer. D) A successful director.
A) Elaborating B) Enhancing C) Whoring D) Simplifying
A) Money B) Artistic expression C) Personal satisfaction D) Critical acclaim
A) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" B) "The Off-Shore Pirate" C) "Winter Dreams" D) "May Day"
A) Germany B) Spain C) England D) France
A) London B) Paris C) Rome D) French Riviera
A) Metropolitan Magazine B) Vanity Fair C) Scribner's D) The New Yorker
A) Popularity B) Education C) Wealth D) Cultural knowledge
A) Gin-and-fruit concoctions B) Tea and biscuits C) Coffee and pastries D) Wine and cheese
A) Metamorphoses B) The Odyssey C) The Aeneid D) Satyricon
A) This Side of Paradise B) Save Me the Waltz C) The Beautiful and Damned D) "Tender Is the Night"
A) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" B) "Winter Dreams" C) "Absolution" D) "The Ice Palace"
A) $30 B) $100 C) $10 D) $50
A) Max Perkins B) John V. A. Weaver C) Ginevra King D) Ludlow Fowler
A) The Waldorf Astoria B) The Ritz-Carlton C) The Commodore Hotel on 42nd Street D) The Plaza Hotel
A) "Pickfair" B) "Ellerslie" C) "La Paix" D) "Towson Manor"
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) A period of economic depression and hardship D) An era of strict moral codes and traditional values
A) "Winter Dreams" B) "The Ice Palace" C) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" D) "May Day"
A) $500 B) $80 C) $1000 D) $200
A) September 1918 B) December 1918 C) February 14, 1919 D) November 1918
A) 1925 B) 1923 C) 1926 D) 1924
A) The Beautiful and Damned B) A Lost Lady C) Tender Is the Night D) This Side of Paradise
A) Sexual recklessness B) Competing in sports C) Volunteering at a local hospital D) Writing poetry together
A) pulmonary embolism B) lung cancer C) stroke D) occlusive coronary arteriosclerosis
A) By the 1940s B) By the 1970s C) By the 1960s D) By the 1950s
A) The Long Island Story B) Trimalchio C) Gatsby's Rise D) The Parvenu's Dream
A) United Artists B) Warner Bros. C) MGM Studios D) Paramount Pictures
A) "The Great Gatsby" B) "Tender Is the Night" C) "Save Me the Waltz" D) "Magnetism"
A) The Beautiful and Damned B) This Side of Paradise C) Tender Is the Night D) The Great Gatsby
A) Budd Schulberg B) John O'Hara C) Charles Jackson D) Edward Newhouse
A) "The Rich Boy" B) "May Day" C) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" D) "Winter Dreams"
A) Edith Wharton B) Burke Van Allen C) T. S. Eliot D) John V. A. Weaver |